How to do things with food: The rules and roles of mealtime ‘things’ in everyday family dinners

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Laughter, excitement, and suspense in preschool : Choreographing emotional stances as a multiparty achievement

“…These studies show how caregivers orient to and guide the ways in which various emotions -joy, anger, sadness -can be expressed, and how they are interpreted with children of different ages and in different social contexts (Ochs, 1996). For instance, studies on families -parent-child, sibling interactions -demonstrate that emotions, both negative and positive, constitute an inextricable part of organizing social relations and family life (Demuth, 2013;Goodwin & Cekaite, 2018;Wiggins, 2019;Zotevska & Martín-Bylund, 2022;Jin et al, 2022). Children are active social actors in these social situations; they "are constantly viewing and processing the emotional behavior of others and incorporate this learning into their own expressive behavior" (Waring, 2021: 213).…”

“…Enjoyment and playfulness in adult-child interactions is a collaborative affair, where adults have possibilities to monitor, affiliate with, join and co-produce entertaining playful activities initiated by children themselves. Zotevska and Martín-Bylund (2022) for instance show that family mealtimes serve as an arena where children's enjoyment and having a good time together with other family members is important. Playfulness was pursued by children in their manipulation of material objects such as food.…”