- Title
- Fathers, children, play and playfulness
- Creator
- Lane, Shelly J.; St. George, Jennifer
- Relation
- International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities p. 71-106
- Relation
- International Review of Research in Developmental Disabilities 59
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.irrdd.2020.07.005
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Is has become clear that fathers play a core role in the family; they are crucial for child development and family wellbeing. Father-child interaction is frequently around play, and this interaction serves to form an important bond between father and child that influences development throughout childhood. However, our understanding of how father-child play, child playfulness, and father playfulness interact to support development is limited. We know even less about this interaction for children with disabilities. In this paper we address play and playfulness in children, and parental playful interactions with their children. We examine fathers’ playfulness and fathers as playmates, and present some preliminary research examining playfulness between fathers and their toddlers. Throughout we thread information on children with disabilities, first focusing on play and playfulness and later, on father-child play when children have disabilities.
- Subject
- father; child; play; playfulness
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1441380
- Identifier
- uon:41406
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780128228746
- Language
- eng
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