(6) Children’s Ways to have Contact
About 70% of children answered “often” for “express children’s feelings in words”.
Children’s ways to “often” have contact with their parents with high proportion were: “express children’s feelings in words” (71.2%), “want to play together” (69.9%), “ask what children wonder why” (69.7%), “want to touch parents’ bodies” (69.3%), “tell parents the events of the day, etc.” (67.3%), accounting for about 70%.
Meanwhile, children who “request to hold or carry children on parent’s back” account for 37.8% and those who “ask for what friends or siblings have” 31.0% (Table 10).
Table 10 Children’s ways to have contact with their parents
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