The purpose of this study explored the perceptions of undergraduate students who employed simulator infants in Family Life Education. All of the participants (N=156) were undergraduate students majoring in Family Studies programs in Taiwan. The data collection included quantitative reports of proper care scores, questionnaire, and qualitative data from focus group interviews and students' reflective journals. The results showed that participants realized the responsibilities, challenges and difficulties of caring for babies. They had more discussion and open communication with significant others. Infant simulators could be used in Family Life Education in undergraduate courses, and to provide the opportunity for students at the emerging adulthood to think about the consequences of unwanted pregnancy, commitment of parents, preparedness for being parents, and learning child care skills. The implications of the study indicated that infant simulators may be used in the stage of emerging adulthood and provided for faculty and develop curriculum and multiple teaching strategies in Family Studies.

Parents are important stakeholders when demanding quality child care services, and it is necessary to take parents' perspectives on child care quality seriously. The purpose of this study was to investigate Taiwanese parents' perceptions regarding the importance of quality, and satisfaction with preschools based on participants' demographic characteristics, child's ages, and types of schools. Convenience sampling was utilized in this study. Data were collected from 810 participants with at least one three-to five-year-old child enrolled in one of 20 preschools in Taiwan. The instrument identified parental perceptions of quality and satisfaction with child care programs were categorized into seven domains: Program Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics, Interactions, Curriculum, Safety and Health, Physical Environment, and Evaluation. Health and safety issues tended to be more important in determining parental ratings for quality and satisfaction when children were enrolled preschool programs. There were no significant differences on parental ratings of the importance of quality among parental demographic characteristics and child's ages, and only significant difference by children's types of schools. Overall, results showed parents were satisfied with their current preschool programs. The findings have implications for parents, practitioners, and policy makers; for example, parents' education; Parent-Teacher partnerships; and effective communication for teacher-parent interactions. Recommendations for future research were addressed.

Play contributes and stimulates learning which helps children to experience their surrounding world and giving meaning to the world in a lifelong process. As research has seen, play influences children's learning as well as in children's development. Play represents significant developmental behaviors in itself and in relation to other developmental domains. Board games play is becoming popular in Malaysia. Parental belief and perception regarding play is important. The study aimed at exploring how Malaysian parents perceive board games play and learning with their children. Through semi-structured interviews, this study investigated 16 Chinese parents' perceptions on board games play and children's learning. These participants were recruited through preschools in Penang, Malaysia. This study found that parents appreciated play and board games play and associated board games play with developmental significance. Parents valued the quality family bonding time which board games could provide. To conclude, parents viewed at play and board games play positively but indicate that both were different from teaching materials. This finding suggested that parents or stakeholders who work with children, could consider using play and board games play as one of the learning methods.