For my term paper I chose to search on any research involving child play and its importance in understanding children’s emotions and behaviors. This topic interests me because I have noticed that most of the mothers I know don’t supervise their children at play. Usually that’s because they are busy with careers and house work. I believe observing children at play could offer caregivers insight into what that child is thinking or feeling.

I was able to find four peer reviewed articles that focused on children’s play narratives to examine different hypothesis. The first article is titled Internal Representations: Predicting Anxiety From Children’s Play Narratives by Susan L. Warren, Robert N. Emde, and Alan Sroufe. It is an article from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The objective if this qualitative longitudinal study was to see whether “the internal representations as measured by narratives at 5 years of age would predict......

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Title: Importance Of Child Play
Approximate Word Count: 1627
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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