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child development: discipline 15 child-centred activities see adultcentred/child-centred activities childcare practices 2 see also discipline by grandparents childcare provision and ethnicity 18 and family policy 3-4, 76-7, 134-5, 142-3 grandparent hierarchy 61-3 grandparents as surrogate parents 109-13, 118-19, 132 grandparents as main carers 73, 77, 134 paternal grandparents 61-3 payment for childcare 3, 134-5 reservations of grandparents 109-13, 142 support for 136-9 obligation and affection 104-5, 142-3 resistance to 16, 28, 106, 134 see also reluctant grandparents children see grandchildren