Child Development Knowledge and Parenting Skills

1984 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph H. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Child Development Knowledge

Nobody’s Perfect: Making sense of a parenting skills workshop through ethnographic research in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago de Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 026101832098398
Author(s):  
Marjorie Murray ◽  
Daniela Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Parenting Skills ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Santiago De Chile ◽  
One Year ◽  
Everyday Problems

Nadie es Perfecto (Nobody’s Perfect, or NEP) is a parenting skills workshop aimed at ‘sharing experiences and receiving guidance on everyday problems to strengthen child development’. This article explores this workshop in terms of its relationship with the daily lives of participants, based on one year of fieldwork focused on families with young children in a low-income neighbourhood in Santiago. While caregivers frame their parenting efforts as aiming to ‘hacer lo mejor posible’ (do their best) under difficult circumstances, our study found that facilitators take an anachronistic and homogenizing view of participants. Embracing a universalistic perspective of child development, they discourage participation and debate, focusing instead on providing concrete advice that limits the potential of the workshops. This article argues that by ignoring the different living situations of families in this socioeconomic context, NEP reproduces a prejudiced view of poor subjects that sees them as deficient and incapable of change.

Child development knowledge: Is it enough?

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon L. Wooden ◽  
Nancy E. Baptiste
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Child Development Knowledge

Psychosocial Health Issues in Pediatric Practices: Parents' Knowledge and Concerns

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda D. McCune ◽  
Miriam M. Richardson ◽  
Judith A. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Psychosocial Health ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pediatric Practice ◽  
Behavioral Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central United States ◽  
Child Development Knowledge

Parents' general knowledge of child development and the demographic factors associated with that knowledge were studied. A questionnaire was completed by 230 parents of patients from three quite different pediatric practices in the south-central United States. χ2 analysis was used as the major statistical technique. Results indicated that age, educational level, and income were associated with level of child development knowledge. Parents reported the sources and educational techniques that were most helpful to them in the past and present. The majority (81%) of the questions that parents wished to direct to pediatricians, given sufficient time, were concerned with psychosocial issues. It appears that the pediatric practice is a logical means of providing information to parents about their children's health concerns, both behavioral and physical. These results emphasize the importance of training pediatricians in behavioral issues and in improving their communication skills. The results are presented to help pediatricians select the anticipatory guidance and educational techniques that might be provided to parents through the pediatric practice.

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