Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads
- Written by Emily Freeman, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Newcastle
Dads tend to engage in more active, physical play activities with their young children.Shutterstock/pyrozhenkaPlay is an important way for children to learn about the world around them.
Through play, they learn cultural norms, socialisation guidelines and experiment with different ways to interact with their environment.
But play between a father...