The importance of play in promoting healthy child development and maintaining strong parent-child bond: Focus on children in poverty

Pediatrics

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Milteer, Regina M ^a   Ginsburg, Kenneth R ^a   Mulligan, Deborah Ann ^a   Ameenuddin, Nusheen ^a   Brown, Ari ^a   Christakis, Dimitri A ^a   Cross, Corinn ^a   Falik, Holly Lee ^a   Hill, David L ^a   Hogan, Marjorie J ^a   Levine, Alanna Estin ^a   O'Keeffe, Gwenn S ^a   Swanson, Wendy Sue ^a   Siegel, Benjamin S ^a   Dobbins, Mary I ^a   Earls, Marian F ^a   Garner, Andrew S ^a   McGuinn, Laura ^a   Pascoe, John ^a   Wood, David L ^a  

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Author keywords

Children; Development; Parents; Pediatrician; Play; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; COOPERATION; EMOTION; FAMILY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PEDIATRICIAN; PLAY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEACHER; WELLBEING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXERCISE; HUMANS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; POVERTY; POVERTY AREAS; SCHOOLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84855293915     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-2953     Document Type: Article

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