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- Title
RESEARCH ARTICLE: PARENTS AS ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS: THE IRISH HOME AS A PLAY SPACE FOR TODDLERS.
- Authors
Maeve Coughlan; Helen Lynch
- Abstract
Play between parents and toddlers is a partnership - one that is both motivated and shaped by the physical and social environments in which play occurs. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an insight into how Irish parents strive to support and manage the play experiences of their 18-36 month old toddler in home environments. Six parents participated in the study. Key findings include the toddler's spatial tie to the parent within the home and the crucial roles that parents assume in orchestrating their child's play. This contributes to our understanding of parent-child play interactions and illustrates how parents and carers can enable or curtail their toddler's play experiences within the home which in turn supports Occupational Therapy practitioners in planning meaningful and appropriate interventions.
- Subjects
IRELAND; ATTACHMENT behavior; GROUNDED theory; HOME accident prevention; INTERVIEWING; LEARNING strategies; RESEARCH methodology; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTING; PLAY; STATISTICAL sampling; SOUND recordings; VALUES (Ethics); QUALITATIVE research; HOME environment; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2011, Vol 39, Issue 1, p34
- ISSN
0791-8437
- Publication type
Article