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Rough-and-Tumble Time!

What is rough-and-tumble play? Peer interaction that involves play fighting and friendly chasing. It starts in preschool and peaks in middle childhood. Rough-and-tumble play typically occurs in the pre-adolescent age and in boys more than girls.

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Rough-and-Tumble Time!

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  1. What is rough-and-tumble play? • Peer interaction that involves play fighting and friendly chasing. It starts in preschool and peaks in middle childhood. Rough-and-tumble play typically occurs in the pre-adolescent age and in boys more than girls. Image received from:http://mrsjskindergarten.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-rough-and-tumble-play-is.html • Procedure: • Observe the differences of rough-and-tumble play between boys and girls. • Observe the differences of rough-and-tumble between pre-adolescence and adolescence This play is important for child development (socially, cognitively, emotionally, and physically). Rough-and-tumble decline in adolescence for boys and is almost inexistent for adolescent girls Rough-and-Tumble Time! Research question: How does rough-and-tumble play have an effect on the way boys develop versus? And how does rough-and-tumble play change in adolescence? Susan Gillespie University of Cincinnati (Middle Childhood Education-Mathematics and Natural Schience) gillesss@mail.uc.edu

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