Abstract
A pair of mother and 24-month-old child, in fact, forty five pairs, were closely observed during their make-believe play, and the following results are obtained through contemplating the script structures, their characteristics as well as the mother's role regarding structurization. 1) There is a tendency that the children's slots are considerably similar to those of their mothers in terms of the number of sorts and appearance frequency. 2) Both mothers and children show a lot of slots regarding eating and drinking, but, while children show a lot of slots regarding cooking and serving their guests, mothers show a lot of slots regarding mealtime manner including a comment, TASTY! 3) Mother's slots play an important role to help children's slots to be integrated into chronological order. 4) The spontaneous slots by children tend to form the core of the chronological order.
