Challenges to Children’s Learning and Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of Immigrant Parents in Toronto

Guruge, Sepali; Sidani, Souraya; Lamaj, Paula; Leung, Ernest; Lee, Charlotte; Altenberg, Jason; Ssawe, Andrew; Ronquillo, Charlene

doi:10.21125/iceri.2021.1435

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“…One factor that may positively impact children's mental health in at-risk families is positive parenting (Black and Lobo, 2008;Torres Fernandez et al, 2013;Daks et al, 2020;Guruge et al, 2021). Positive parenting includes parental flexibility, parental responsiveness, constructive parenting, and emotional warmth (Tamis-Lemonda et al, 1996), and it can lead to more positive parent-child relationships -a well-established determinant of well-being in children (von Suchodoletz et al, 2011;Seay et al, 2014;Weeland et al, 2021;Koper et al, 2022;Shoychet et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022;Yates and Mantler, 2023).…”

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Positive parenting practices support children at neurological risk during COVID-19: a call for accessible parenting interventions

Green,

Linga-Easwaran,

Goodman

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Children and youth with neurological and/or neurodevelopmental conditions were at high risk for behavioral and mental health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Positive and responsive parenting practices may be one way to prevent and manage potential difficulties in families. We aimed to identify whether positive parenting practices were associated with reduced behavioral concerns in children at neurological risk during the late stages and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, we examined whether ongoing parental stress, anxiety, and depression impacted parenting practices during this time period. Families (N = 179) with children 4 to 15 years old (M = 7.11y, SD = 2.02) diagnosed with neurological (84.3%), neurodevelopmental (54.8%) or comorbid neurological and/or neurodevelopmental conditions (21.2%) were contacted to complete online questionnaires regarding demographics, parent stress, child behavior, COVID-19 conditions, and parenting practices. Multivariable linear regression (MLR) analyses examined the association between positive parenting practices and parenting competency measures with child behavioral outcomes, controlling for relevant covariates, including COVID-19 related stress. MLR were also run to determine whether parental mental health impacted parenting practices. More positive parenting practices predicted fewer child problem behaviors and lower intensity of problem behaviors. Similarly, a higher sense of satisfaction with parenting competence also predicted fewer child problem behaviors and lower intensity of problem behaviors. In addition, higher reported parental depression, anxiety, and stress significantly predicted fewer reported positive parenting practices. Findings points to the promising application of positive parenting interventions to support vulnerable families, as well as the need for parental mental health intervention to support parenting practices.

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