Parent-Child Play: Descriptions and Implications

408 Pages·1993·14.047 MB·English

by  Kevin B. MacDonald

DESCRIPTIONS & IMPLICATIONS
KEVIN MACDONALD, EDITOR

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Parent-Child Play
SUNY Series, Children’s Play in Society
Anthony D. Pellegrini, Editor
Parent-Child Play
Descriptions and Implications
Edited by
Kevin MacDonald
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS
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© 1993 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Parent-child play : descriptions and implications / edited by Kevin
MacDonald.
p. cm. — (SUNY series, children’s play in society)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-7914-1463-9 (CH : acid-free). — ISBN 0-7914-1464-7 (PB :
acid-free)
1. Play. 2. Child development. 3. Parent and child.
I. MacDonald, Kevin B. II. Series.
HQ782.V35 1993
155.4'18—dc20
92-20562
CIP
Rev.
10 987654321
Contents
Introduction: Parents and Children Playing
Kevin MacDonald 1
Chapter 1. Dilemmas in Adult Play with Children
Brian Sutton-Smith 15
Part I. Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 2. Parent-Infant Games as Dynamic Social Systems
Alan Fogel, Evangeline Nwokah, and Jeanne Karns 43
Chapter 3. Parent-Infant Play as a Window
on Infant Competence: An Organizational
Approach to Assessment
Marjorie Beeghley 71
Chapter 4. Parent-Child Play: An Evolutionary Perspective
Kevin MacDonald 113
Part II. Mechanisms of Parent-Child Play
Chapter 5. Rough and Tumble Play: A Fundamental
Brain Process
Jaak Panksepp 147
Chapter 6. Lessons from Primate Play
Maxine Biben and Steven J. Suomi 185
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Chapter 7. Parent-Child Physical Play: Determinants
and Consequences
James Carson, Virginia Burks, and Ross D. Parke 197
Chapter 8. The Necessary Lightness of Mother-Child Play
Phyllis Leuenstein and John O’Hara 221
Chapter 9. Mother-Infant Play and Maternal Depression
Jeffrey F. Cohn 239
Part III. Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 10. Peekaboo across Cultures: How Mothers and
Infants Play with Voices, Faces, and Expectations
Anne Fernald and Daniela K. O’Neill 259
Chapter 11. Gentle Play Partners: Mother-Child and
Father-Child Play in New Delhi, India
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Frank H. Hooper,
Mohammad Ahmeduzzaman, and Brad Pollack 287
Chapter 12. “Mother, Older Sibling and Me”:
The Overlapping Roles
of Caregivers and Companions
in the Social World of
Two- to Three-Year-Olds
in Ngeca, Kenya
Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice B. Whiting 305
Chapter 13. Persistence of Play and Feeding Interaction
Differences in Three Miami Cultures
Tiffany M. Field
Chapter 14. Cultural Differences in Scaffolding Pretend
Play: A Comparison of American and Mexican
Mother-Child and Sibling-Child Pairs
Jo Ann M. Farver
349