Children’s Concerns about their Parents’ Health and Well‐being: Researching with ChildLine Scotland

Jackson, Sharon

doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00349.x

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“…The parenting of these pupils is frequently negatively appraised and viewed as deficient, with their children's socio-emotional difficulties blamed on a lack of parental responsibility (Gill & Liamputtong, 2009;Francis, 2012), yet the implications of this for ensuring pupils' socio-emotional needs are addressed has not been thoroughly considered. Additionally, although there are suggestions that pupils may not disclose their home problems with authority figures such as educational practitioners (Backett-Milburn & Jackson, 2012), those employed in many BESD schools are in a unique position. This is because class sizes are usually smaller than the mainstream norm, enabling practitioners to form strong, trusting relationships with their pupils, with the possibility of encouraging pupils to share their socio-emotional difficulties.…”

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‘Going the extra mile’: educational practitioners compensating for perceived inadequacies in the parenting of children with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD)

Broomhead

2013

Pastoral Care in Education

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Parents are frequently positioned in policy as blameworthy and lacking responsibility for their children's well-being. However, little research has considered how the socio-emotional needs of children are being addressed whilst attempts are being made to improve parenting. Based on interviews with 15 educational practitioners employed in mainstream and BESD schools, I illustrate how staff perceived pupils with BESD to experience chaotic home lives. Parents were viewed as failing to take responsibility for their children's development and socio-emotional well-being, and their parenting practices were frequently viewed as inappropriate. Educational practitioners consequently compensated for these assumed parental inadequacies to ensure the socio-emotional needs of pupils with BESD were addressed. This highlighted the intense pressure and multi-faceted role of practitioners, due to a moral obligation to support the socio-emotional well-being of their pupils. It questioned how the socio-emotional needs of pupils would be addressed if staff had not been so committed to addressing these issues, in addition to their key role as educator. The paper concludes by considering implications for policy and practice, with a particular focus on the need for further support for educational practitioners if they are to address the socio-emotional well-being of pupils within these circumstances.

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‘Going the extra mile’: educational practitioners compensating for perceived inadequacies in the parenting of children with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD)

Broomhead

2013

Pastoral Care in Education

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“…The children supported these ideas, suggesting that death be taught within the curriculum and spoken about when someone dies. This focus supports the creation of an environment where experiences of death and bereavement can be shared with peers and adults: the significance of which is recognised across a range of health and well‐being issues (Backett‐Milburn and Jackson, ). Such developments might serve to address death illiteracy, which, in turn, might renegotiate ambivalence.…”

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Is Death Taboo for Children? Developing Death Ambivalence as a Theoretical Framework to Understand Children’s Relationship with Death, Dying and Bereavement

Paul

2019

Children & Society

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Children’s voices are missing from debates related to the idea that death is a taboo subject and this limits understandings of how children encounter death. Drawing on data from focus groups with children aged 9–12, this paper aimed to explore if and how children experience death as a taboo, but discovered that the death‐taboo thesis lacks nuance, confining and misrepresenting children’s experiences. Death ambivalence is thus proposed as a conceptual tool to illuminate children’s relationship with death. It identifies policy and practice implications concerned with developing death literacy and brings a new theorisation to death and childhood studies.

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“…Previous research has demonstrated that direct social control efforts from social networks that include adult children promote the healthy behavior of adults in later life; however, this work has not isolated adult children from other network members and thus cannot determine the specific processes that characterize children's direct social control efforts (Laroche & Snetselaar, ; Tucker et al, ; Williams, ). It is also plausible that school‐age children attempt to regulate their parents' diet and exercise habits as they become more aware of healthy behavior norms through school, media sources, and parents themselves (Backett‐Milburn & Harden, ; Backett‐Milburn & Jackson, ).…”

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Diet and Exercise in Parenthood: A Social Control Perspective

Reczek

Thomeer

Lodge

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J of Marriage and Family

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Previous work on social control—the direct and indirect regulation of an individual’s health behaviors by others—suggests that parent–child relationships promote healthy diet and exercise. Yet parenthood is associated with less healthy diet and exercise patterns. The authors investigated this paradox by examining social control processes in 40 in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers. They found that parenthood involves social control processes that both promote and compromise healthy behavior, contributing to contradictory perceived effects of parenthood on health behavior. Moreover, the dynamics of social control appear to unfold in different ways for mothers and fathers and depend on the child’s gender and life stage, suggesting that gender and age dyads are central to understanding the seemingly contradictory consequences of parenthood at the population level. These articulations of gendered social control processes provide new insight into the consequences of the gendered organization of parenthood for diet and exercise.

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Children’s Concerns about their Parents’ Health and Well‐being: Researching with ChildLine Scotland

Cited by 15 publications

References 20 publications

‘Going the extra mile’: educational practitioners compensating for perceived inadequacies in the parenting of children with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD)

‘Going the extra mile’: educational practitioners compensating for perceived inadequacies in the parenting of children with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD)

Is Death Taboo for Children? Developing Death Ambivalence as a Theoretical Framework to Understand Children’s Relationship with Death, Dying and Bereavement

Diet and Exercise in Parenthood: A Social Control Perspective

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