How Chinese immigrant mothers perceive "Chinese" and "U.S." parenting and changes in their parenting postmigration remains unclear, despite recent interest in Chinese parenting particularly in response to A. Chua's (2011) controversial book on "Tiger Mothers". The present study addressed this issue by examining the parenting beliefs and practices of Chinese immigrant mothers through qualitative...

We explored parenting self-construals among mothers with serious mental illness (n = 379). Mothers reported feeling moderately positively about themselves as parents, more efficacious than inefficacious, more positive than negative, more valued than disvalued; but also at least somewhat restricted and burdened by motherhood. Factor analyses revealed 3 parenting self-construal factors: efficacio...

The purpose of this study is to describe in-depth the implementation holistic integrative education based on character Early Childhood Education, in every program activity carried out. Research method with a qualitative approach. With data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation studies. research subjects include: Management, Teacher Coordination, Character Paren...

BACKGROUND There is co-morbidity between parental depression and childhood conduct disorder. The Incredible Years (IY) parenting programmes reduce both conduct disorder in children and depression in their parents. Recent U.K. and Ireland trials of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of IY parenting programmes have assessed children's health and social care service use, but little is known ...

Kimberly Howard and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn examine home visiting, an increasingly popular method for delivering services for families, as a strategy for preventing child abuse and neglect. They focus on early interventions because infants are at greater risk for child abuse and neglect than are older children. In their article, Howard and Brooks-Gunn take a close look at evaluations of nine home-vi...

Background: The aim of this paper is to describe the development a shared housing model intervention that was designed serve youth experiencing homelessness who are LGBTQ+ and/or pregnant/parenting. built around two guiding philosophies: first and restorative justice. Methods: We engaged in year-long planning process with an advisory group from 1 July 2021 through 30 June 2022. partnership betw...

Physical activity (PA) parenting research has proliferated over the past decade, with findings verifying the influential role that parents play in children's emerging PA behaviors. This knowledge, however, has not translated into effective family-based PA interventions. During a preconference workshop to the 2012 International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity annual meetin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utility of familial and parental variables in predicting trajectories of parenting behaviors among families of young adolescents with and without spina bifida (SB). METHOD Sixty-eight families with a child with SB and a demographically matched comparison group (CG) of 68 families of an able-bodied child participated. Observational and questionnaire assessments of par...

"Tiger" parenting, as described by Amy Chua [2011], has instigated scholarly discourse on this phenomenon and its possible effects on families. Our eight-year longitudinal study, published in the Asian American Journal of Psychology [Kim, Wang, Orozco-Lapray, Shen, & Murtuza, 2013b], demonstrates that tiger parenting is not a common parenting profile in a sample of 444 Chinese American families...

The purpose of this paper was to discuss how parenting has changed in recent decades. The topics discussed include: (1) increased focus on parenting in today's culture; (2) perception of pediatric dentists regarding parenting changes; (3) relative importance of parenting in children's development; (4) family/parenting trends; and (5) the role of stress in the changing nature of parenting.