Jean-François Bureau

So the first thing that's really important, mothers spend more time per week playing with children than fathers.

So the idea that only dads, it's our specialty, and dads are playing and moms are boring, this is kind of a myth.

Because moms spend more time playing, dads spend a bigger proportion of their time playing.

So that's one thing.

So in our research, we look at the different strategies parents are using.

We were expecting mom to be more verbal, songs, things like that, with dad being more physical.

And we're kind of surprised to see that moms are using the exact same amount of tickling and chasing and rough and tumble kind of thing.

And children were laughing as much with mom and dad.

So there were no differences there.

But it seemed to be more central in the relationship with father, which was interesting, too.

It brings an interesting nuance where it suggests that...

Look, mom and dad are as capable of making a child laugh.

So that's what we found.

However, it is related to the quality of relationship and to trust the child as in the parent.

Only in the father-child relationship.

Oh, more in the... I should be careful here.

But more in the father-child relationship.

And our idea here, explanation could be both ways.

So either...

Because there are slight differences in the way we play with children.