“…A practitioner can use the checklist to promote and support parents' or other primary caregivers' abilities to provide their children development-enhancing learning opportunities as part of everyday activities and routines. The research foundations for the capacity-building practices include findings from research reviews of family-centered participatory help giving practices (Dempsey & Keen, 2008;Dunst, Trivette, & Hamby, 2007, 2008Rosenbaum, King, Law, King, & Evans, 1998) and adult learning studies of authentic learning opportunities (Dunst & Hamby, 2015;Dunst et al, 2010). Findings reported in these research reviews as well as results from individual studies (e.g., Dunst & Dempsey, 2007;Swanson et al, 2011;Woods & Brown, 2011) indicate that active parent participation in using everyday familiar activities as sources of child learning opportunities together with practitioner suggestions, supportive feedback, and encouragement, are associated with changes and improvements in parenting confidence and competence (Dunst et al, , 2010.…”