“…Familial support of children's play and the accessibility of opportunities to play with other children are extremely important in child development (see Ginsburg, 2007;Lin & Li, 2018). There are findings indicating that parental support of children's play improves children's science, mathematical and numeracy skill (Hao & Fleer, 2017;Sikder & Fleer, 2018;Vandermaas-peeler, Boomgarden, Finn, & Pittard, 2012), helps social skill and adaptable temperament , betters emotion regulation, and child-13 parent relationship (Singh & Gupta, 2012). Parental engagement in their children's play as a playmate is among the different forms of parental play support.…”