Overall, there is consensus on the effectiveness of play to promote children’s development in areas such as socialisation, enjoyment, problem solving, physical and emotional development as well as their overall wellbeing (Ghafouri & Wien, 2005; Hunter & Walsh, 2014). However, many debate the ...
In the marketing field, Deborah Roedder John's11 highly influential review of a 25-year body of literature on the ‘consumer socialisation of children’ has more recently consolidated the ideas of Piaget and writers such as Selman in proposing a three-stage process through which children mature,...