A nice school… A toy he would love to buy… A new computer game…
What do you think children want most from their parents? ? We can increase the options above. Well, how many of us can predict the correct answer?
Stop and think for a few minutes before reading the rest of the article! Even make a list and write down 10 things you think your child might want from you.
Now let’s look at the answer!
Correspondingly, the results of Hasbro Gaming’s “Parent and Child Interaction Study” of 250 parents and their children. 93 percent of participating children ‘want to play more games’ with their parents.
Just as the parents of the research justify these requests of the children. Mothers and fathers, especially fathers, think that they cannot get along with their children properly.
According to the research conducted with 250 parents and their children, who have children aged 4-11 years, with the portable research system, 54 percent of parents want to spend more time with their children and 93 percent of children want to spend more time with their parents. In particular, 64 percent of fathers think that they do not spend enough time with their children, while research data shows that 7 out of 10 children spend the most time with their mothers; mothers are followed by grandparents with 12 percent and fathers with 7 percent.
HOW MUCH TIME CAN FATHERS Spend DAY WITH THEIR CHILDREN?
According to the results of the research, mothers say that they spend more than 5 hours a day with their children on average, while fathers say that they spend 1 to 2 hours a day with their children. The hours when all parents are most in touch with their children are in the middle of 19.00 – 23.00 with a rate of 65 percent. However, this time spent on weekdays includes eating, doing homework, and watching TV in the room one-on-one. In fact, considering that children go to bed earlier during school, the time spent together becomes shorter. Weekends are the time when parents can be together with their children the most. According to the research, 68 percent of parents spend most of their time with their children on Saturdays and Sundays; this rate rises to 81 percent in the 9-11 age group.
FATHERS ACTUALLY LOVE PLAYING!
Research shows that parents, especially fathers, enjoy playing with their children the most. In general, parents draw pictures with their children when they are in the middle, while parents with children between the ages of 9-11 prefer to play board games with their children, with a ratio of 40 percent, in addition to outdoor games.
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