著者

岡野 雅子

出版者

日本家政学会

雑誌

日本家政学会誌 = Journal of home economics of Japan (ISSN:09135227)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.47, no.5, pp.435-444, 1996-05-15

参考文献数

7

被引用文献数

1

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The purpose of this study is to discuss how children perceive their families and home lives, where they were born and where they have been brought up Observations of their make-believe plays were made: 1) Mother's role was the main one while they played house in the day nursery, while father's role was supplementary. Mother in their play prepared meals, took care of baby and did shopping. In other words, the family and home life portrayed were not largely different from those conventionally portrayed in the past. 2)Children in the children's home I observed interacted less with each other, only few playing house. Each child's symbolic play portrayed the acts of eating, sleeping and taking care of baby. I heard little references to their family relations. 3) It is easy for children to recognize the acts of eating, sleeping and taking care of baby in their daily life. However, the child's view differs between those children in the day nursery and those in the children's home. The former enact family and human relations while the latter portray independent acts not related to one another. 4) Children in the children's home seem not to have developed the abstract images The family and home life are important in developing a child's abstract concepts, which, in turn, influence him/her in forming good relationships with others.