Make a child call a function from its parent AS3 - actionscript-3

Question

So I've been reading a lot about inheritance and circular dependency and I see no way around this. Still a little new to multiple classes. My document class creates Field. My Field class creates player and pushes bitmapData from the Tile MovieClip. I want player to be able to draw that bitmapData to the field. Engine.as(document class):
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
public class Engine extends MovieClip {
private var field:Field;
public static var _tilesData:Array = [];
public function Engine()
{
field = new Field();
field.x = 0;
field.y = 0;
addChild(field);
}
}
Field.as:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.display.Bitmap;
public class Field extends MovieClip{
private var player:Player;
private var sampleTile:Tile = new Tile();
public function Field()
{
player = new Player();
player.x = 0;
player.y = 0;
addChild(player);
GetSampleTiles();
}
public function GetSampleTiles()
{
for (var i:int = 0;i < 3; i++)
{
sampleTile.gotoAndStop(i);
var graphicData:BitmapData = new BitmapData(32,32);
graphicData.draw(sampleTile);
Engine._tilesData.push(graphicData);
}
}
public function DrawATile(tileToDraw:BitmapData)
{
var newTile:Bitmap = new Bitmap(tileToDraw);
newTile.x = player.x;
newTile.y = player.y;
addChild(newTile);
}
}
}
Player.as:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.display.Bitmap;
public class Player extends MovieClip
{
public var _inp:Input = new Input();
public function Player()
{
addChild(_inp);
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, HandleKeys);
}
public function HandleKeys(e:Event)
{
if(_inp.keyUp)
{
y -= 32;
}
if(_inp.keyDown)
{
y += 32;
}
if(_inp.keyLeft)
{
x -= 32;
}
if(_inp.keyRight)
{
x += 32;
}
if(_inp.keySpace)
{
parent.DrawATile(Engine._tilesData[0]);
}
}
}
}
Is there a better way of doing this than I am seeing? When I put DrawATile function in Player.as it works... but the tiles move around with the player.

Answer 1

I placed the DrawATile function in Player.as and in it I add the newTile to parent like this - parent.addChild(newTile). that way it adds it to whatever its parent is and not to itself.