Schooling from home: millennial moms family communication and media uses in COVID-19

Abstract

This study aimed to determine family communication based on satisfaction with the uses of new media technology by millennial mothers and teachers in children studying from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research was conducted qualitatively through online interviews at the beginning of school from home during pandemic Covid-19. It was conducted from May until June 2020 with 30 millennial mothers born in the 1980s to 1999 in Indonesia. Millennial mothers experienced positive feelings (confidence, satisfaction, happiness) and negative feelings (burden, shock, frustration, stress, and depression). The child experienced positive feelings (happiness, satisfaction, enjoyment) and negative feelings (missing school, tiredness, stress, and sadness). The study results show that negative feelings are determined by negative thoughts caused by mothers’ communication when accompanying their children studying online. Therefore, mothers need to improve how they communicate with their children in school and at home to deal with negative emotions.

Analisis isi komunikasi publik polri terkait mudik libur natal dan tahun baru

“…Topik tersebut juga menjadi sorotan media karena dipandang sebagai situasi yang berpotensi berbahaya (Dwiputra, 2021; dan telah mengubah seluruh tatanan kehidupan masyarakat (Wibowo, 2021). Pandemi COVID-19 juga telah mengubah statanan sosial kehidupan manusia, kesehatan masyarakat, dan aktivitas komersial (Nugroho, 2021;Setyastuti et al, 2021). Penerapan kebijakan tetap di rumah dilakukan untuk membendung penyebaran COVID-19 dengan menuntut jarak sosial melalui jarak sosial, karantina, dan isolasi (Sumandiyar et al, 2021).…”

Schoolteachers-Parents Interactions Amid Distance and Blended Learning: Two-Year Experience of Overcoming Negative Influences of Covid-19 Pandemic

“…The idea that family is a vital tool to affect schoolchildren's attitudes to education in general and to school in particular finds support in various studies aimed at finding out the role of a family on child education (Czerepaniak-Walczak, 2020;Safitri et al, 2019;Setyastuti et al, 2021). After the outbreak of Covid-19 in most countries of the world it was the parents who assumed teachers' responsibilities while their children were denied access to traditional schooling.…”

“…After the outbreak of Covid-19 in most countries of the world it was the parents who assumed teachers' responsibilities while their children were denied access to traditional schooling. In this connection, reference can be drawn from the study carried out by a team of researchers who acknowledged that after school closures caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, parents "suddenly have the role of "home teachers" to help their children learn and understand the lessons" (Setyastuti at al., 2021). Unprecedented and unexpected shift to distance learning as one of the forced measures to protect schoolchildren against coronavirus showed that despite large-scale introduction of digital technologies into education over the past decades a significant number of schoolteachers lacked the necessary digital skills and were not ready to deliver instruction to schoolchildren remotely during the first weeks and even months of school closures let alone parents.…”

College Students’ Degree of Support for Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Associated Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…The status of family communication can directly affect the adolescent’s mental health [ 46 ]. Communication between parents and their children, especially in academic affairs, can easily lead to conflicts and negative psychological emotions on both sides [ 47 ]. Especially during the pandemic, college students’ online learning environment is mainly at home, and the influence of family on college students’ attitudes is prominent.…”