Abstract:This paper examines how some Swedish parents constructed meanings of parenthood. The parents had completed a state-sponsored parenting programme and were interviewed about their experiences of the programme, their everyday lives, their need for support, ideas about the societal context, and their understandings of 'good' and 'bad' parents. The study was grounded in a discourse-analytical tradition and concepts from discursive psychology guided the analysis. When the interviewees described good parents as respo… Show more
“…A few research studies have concentrated on the content of parenting training manuals. Widding () and Pharès () are two Nordic examples of research that is concerned with values in parenting training. The purpose of the present study was to reveal how current parenting strategies are outlined in two parenting training manuals.…”
In Sweden, all parents of children aged 0–18 years are entitled to attend free parenting courses as part of a national strategy presented by the Government in 2009. This broad parental support welfare strategy is expected to fulfil the intentions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this study, two parenting training manuals were analysed: the Canadian Connect program, based on attachment theory, and the Swedish ABC program, based on social learning theory. The results indicate that the manuals use strategies that can both hinder and support children's rights, regardless of rhetoric of children's best interests.
“…A few research studies have concentrated on the content of parenting training manuals. Widding () and Pharès () are two Nordic examples of research that is concerned with values in parenting training. The purpose of the present study was to reveal how current parenting strategies are outlined in two parenting training manuals.…”
In Sweden, all parents of children aged 0–18 years are entitled to attend free parenting courses as part of a national strategy presented by the Government in 2009. This broad parental support welfare strategy is expected to fulfil the intentions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this study, two parenting training manuals were analysed: the Canadian Connect program, based on attachment theory, and the Swedish ABC program, based on social learning theory. The results indicate that the manuals use strategies that can both hinder and support children's rights, regardless of rhetoric of children's best interests.
“…Высокий уровень образования: поскольку матерям в модели интенсивного родительства часто приходится анализировать различные источники информации и консультироваться со специалистами, и м бывает необходимо получать новые знания и совершенствовать себя в образовательной сфере. [25] В исследованиях Гименез-Надаль и Севилья отмечается, что матери, придерживающиеся линии интенсивного родительства, обладают высоким уровнем образования [13].…”
Section: психологические характеристики матерей в модели интенсивногоunclassified
The article provides a scientific review of the understanding of intensive parenthood in foreign and national literature in the context of describing the psychological traits of mothers adhering to the model of intensive parenthood. The term itself is not purely scientific, but because of the popularity of this perspective of parenthood, it needs detailed consideration, description, research and justification. Many modern researchers are interested in describing and examining in more details the ideology of such a common pattern of parental behavior as intensive parenthood, and that’s why in this article you can find different views on the term and list of difficulties concerned with the model itself. The article also describes the psychological traits of mothers who adhere to this model of motherhood.
“…Children's play has also been influenced by neoliberal ideologies that work to reconfigure childhood from a time a time of freedom and exploration to a time to "invest in the future" (Smeyers, 2010, p. 271). Fears of economic insecurity and downward mobility -for themselves and for their children -have encouraged among parents a more highly involved and intensified style of parenting, underpinned by a logic that by spending as much time with their children as possible, parents are able to 'immunize' their children against future problems (Widding, 2015). Children's free time has become increasingly organized with 'productive' extracurricular and enrichment activities -thereby both 'instrumentalizing' (i.e., being purpose driven) (Alexander et al, 2018) and 'institutionalizing' childhood (Holloway & Pimlott-Wilson, 2014;Smyth & Craig, 2017).…”
Section: Risk and Childhoodmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Proper vigilance and supervision is one way that peopleincluding parents themselves -differentiated between good and bad parents. As in Widding (2015), parents defined other bad parents as those who were "unwilling to take on the [supervisory] responsibilities…immature and incapable of acting responsibly and is, therefore, him-or herself something of a child" (p. 56). Smith and Craig (2017) identified very little active resistance among parents to intensive parenting standards, although parents felt conflicted about their "obligation to be vigilant" (p. 120).…”
Section: Discourses Of Risk and The Idealized Imaginary Of Children'smentioning
We use Foucauldian discourse analysis to examine comments posted online in response to news articles that reported on one Canadian neighbourhood's 'ban' on children's outdoor play. Our analysis showed that reader comments, both for and against the ban on street play, accessed discourses of risk that produced an idealized childhood based on close parental supervision. Additionally, nostalgic discourse, the feeling that unfettered, wholesome outdoor play has been lost and cannot be reclaimed, also made claims about who the ideal childhood is for. While marginalized children continue to experience disadvantage that inherently exposes them to risks daily, White, middle class children already have access to safer streets, both parent presence or unquestioned but appropriate parental absence, and play in the streets can be part of their everyday lives. We consider how the idealized childhoods produced by discourses of risk and nostalgia influence the materiality of children's outdoor play, including how children's time is organized and who gets to organize it, how play is experienced and who gets to experience it; in ideal ways, in ideal spaces, and for the ideal child.
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