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Parents' Practices of Co-Play in a Community Playgroup
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Celine P. Y. Chu; Karen McLean; Susan Edwards – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2024
Playgroups are a unique form of early childhood provision involving parents and their children attending together. Parents' attendance at playgroups provides opportunities for involvement in play. However, little is known about parents' practices of co-play in playgroups and the potential for these practices to enhance children's play experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Play, Group Activities, Family (Sociological Unit)
Child and Maternal Contributions to Shared Reading: Effects on Language and Literacy Development
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Deckner, Deborah F.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Bakeman, Roger – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
Fifty-five children and their mothers were studied longitudinally from 18 to 42 months to determine the effects of home literacy practices, children's interest in reading, and mothers' metalingual utterances during reading on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts. At 27 months,…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Mothers, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Children's Interests and Their Mothers' Perceptions of These Interests
Andre, Virgie; Brown, Duane – Meas Evaluation Guidance, 1969
To determine if parents misunderstand their offspring, study analyzed 84 children and their mothers using What I Like To Do interest inventory (Bonsall, Meyers, and Thorpe, 1954). Results support previous findings except for maternal overestimation of music interests, underestimation manual interests. Suggests future study where conflict exists to…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Childhood Interests, Children, Elementary School Students