Children's snacking, children's food: food moralities and family life

Curtis, Penny; James, Allison; Ellis, Katie

doi:10.1080/14733285.2010.494870

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“…The choice of unhealthy food when purchasing on their own could be a result of taste preference for sugary and fatty foods 19 or an opportunity for children to exert power and control over their own food consumption, given their minimal described roles in food acquisition and consumption. This is consistent with Curtis et al, 28 who argue that children's food practices can be understood as a part of their own conceptualized role and related responsibilities within a family unit. Hierarchical adult-child relations result in distinct statuses within a family, with children's snack food practices being marginalized.…”

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“…Hierarchical adult-child relations result in distinct statuses within a family, with children's snack food practices being marginalized. 28 Therefore, a child-adult relation in which children's independence is fostered through active participation in family food decisions may positively influence the food choices made by the child. Future research should focus on different age groups of children, based upon their differing levels of independence and mobility.…”

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An examination of the roles played by early adolescent children in interactions with their local food environment

Engler‐Stringer

Schaefer

Ridalls

2016

Can J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine how pre-and early adolescent (10-14 years old) children from a wide range of neighbourhoods interact with their local food environment (FE), with a focus on the foods and food sources they access and their locations. Children in this age group are developing independence and mobility within (and beyond) their home neighbourhoods but are somewhat geographically bound as they cannot yet drive.METHODS: This research consists of qualitative interviews with 31 children (15 males, 16 females) aged 10-14 years living in socio-economically diverse neighbourhoods across Saskatoon, SK. A thematic analysis was conducted.RESULTS: Children's descriptions of what constitutes their neighbourhood FE were varied, ranging from a couple of city blocks to several kilometres from home. Children were familiar with the types of establishment that sell food within their perceived neighbourhood. When children purchased their own food they most frequently cited buying snacks such as ice cream, candy and slushes, and the majority of these purchases were made in convenience stores, gas stations and grocery stores. Few children reported frequenting fast-food or other restaurants without adults, and when they did it was usually to buy snacks such as French fries and ice cream rather than meals. CONCLUSIONS:Our results highlight the importance of interventions targeted to this age group, in which personal food choices were reported almost exclusively as being energy-but not nutrient-dense snack foods.KEY WORDS: Children; environment; diet; food and nutrition; eating La traduction du résumé se trouve à la fin de l'article.

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An examination of the roles played by early adolescent children in interactions with their local food environment

Engler‐Stringer

Schaefer

Ridalls

2016

Can J Public Health

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“…He was cutting it here but then his knife was there so we weren't sure if he couldn't see it.' Previous research suggests that mealtimes are an important example of family practice and display (Smart, 2007;Curtis et al, 2010), such as preparing and eating meals together. Therefore food practices remain significant here, albeit in a manner that is essentially non-normative.…”

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How do young people ‘do’ family where there is a diagnosis of dementia?

Hall

Sikes

2018

Families, Relationships and Societies

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This article presents data arising from a project that explored 22 children and young people's experiences of having a parent with dementia. A key theme from the interviews highlighted the implications dementia has for the relationship between children and their parents -specifically, how individuals 'do' and display family when their parent's personality and capacity to function as previously has been undermined. The data illustrate how these young people experience disruptions to existing family practices, and how they perpetuate a relationship with their parent in the face of dementia. It also indicates that these changes in practices -the disruption and acquired significance -contribute to children's reconceptualisation of their relationship with their parent. This article seeks to add to the literature on family practices (Morgan, 2011) and display (Finch, 2007) by using the experience of dementia to illustrate the importance of family practices when a family experiences 'crisis'. key words dementia • family practices • children and young people • biographical research

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“…Yet this does not limit parents' desire to set an example for their own children and in doing so to reconfirm their relationships with their children. As Curtis et al (2010) discuss in relation to food, parents' attempts to influence children's consumption is as much to do with the construction of moral identities as it is about children's health. Likewise, parental concerns about children's drinking are influenced by the recognition that drink is a vital conduit for negotiating and expressing family…”

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“Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: the relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol socialisation

Holdsworth

Laverty

Robinson

2017

Families, Relationships and Societies

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The importance of inter-generational relations in informing adolescents' socialisation with alcohol is well recognised (Bremmer et al, 2011). Various studies in different national contexts have confirmed the contribution of parental behaviour and advice in shaping adolescents' awareness of drink and alcohol consumption, though how parental influence can be effectively channelled in intervention programmes is less clear Lowe 1991 and1997; Ledoux et al, 2002; Randolph et al, 2010; Shucksmith, 1997). A recent European wide study challenged central assumptions that 'tough love' authoritative parenting styles (Birdwell et al, 2012), characterised by both discipline and warmth, are the most effective way through which parents should seek to influence children's alcohol consumption into adulthood (Calafat et al. 2014). Instead, Calafet et al (2014) found that it was parental warmth, rather than discipline, that was important. Yet while parental behaviours and strategies may present politically expedient and cost-effective ways of tackling social problems associated with young people's drinking, little consideration has been given to how parents themselves draw on their own childhood experiences of alcohol as a guide to inform their children's behaviour.One of the most important unknowns that might go some way to developing a working model of socialisation strategies is the relevance of parents' own childhood experiences of family drinking. Our proposal is that to understand how parents may influence adolescents' drinking behaviours it is relevant to consider how they themselves grew up with and learnt about alcohol consumption. In this paper we present an analysis of 21 parental narrative accounts of family drinking to examine the relationship between parents' childhood 3 experiences and their own attempts to socialise their teenage children around drinking. Our analysis considers how parents remember their childhood experiences and second, how these memories are relevant in their adult lives. Our interpretation of parental strategies is underpinned by our understanding that parents do not necessarily seek to reproduce their own experiences when parenting their own children.In order to develop a more dynamic account of socialisation our account of drinking across generations draws on two important theoretical approaches to family and life course. The first is that of personal life (Smart, 2007), which draws on the conceptualisation of family practices to emphasise what family actually does and is imagined to do, or be, and thus widens the remit of family beyond the immediacy of parent-child relationships, to include other family members and friends and how these relationships are mediated within specific contexts. The second approach relates to time, which is intrinsic to debates about socialisation yet one that is rarely explored. Our analysis considers how memory is essential to socialisation over the life course through considering how parents remember their own childhoods. This approach seeks to contextualise drin...

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Children's snacking, children's food: food moralities and family life

Cited by 58 publications

References 14 publications

An examination of the roles played by early adolescent children in interactions with their local food environment

An examination of the roles played by early adolescent children in interactions with their local food environment

How do young people ‘do’ family where there is a diagnosis of dementia?

“Drinking definitely wasn’t something that we’d seen anybody do”: the relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol socialisation

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