Teaching Mothers and Fathers About How Children Develop: Parenting Knowledge and Practices

McKee, Kelsey; Cabrera, Natasha; Hennigar, Avery; Mittone, Diletta; Díaz, Guadalupe; Reich, Stephanie M.

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“…This suggests that parents with more knowledge about children's development, as measured by parents' performance on the KIDI (MacPhee, 2002), were more likely to use childdirected speech with their children. These findings highlight how parent cognition is often connected with parent behavior (Huang et al, 2005) and, in turn, children's development (Bornstein et al, 2018;McKee et al, 2021). Therefore, understanding how parents conceptualize IDS may provide insight into why parents might not use IDS with their children.…”

Section: Mothers Have Mixed Beliefs About Infant-directed Speechmentioning

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Maternal beliefs about infant-directed speech misalign with interactions with their infants

Ramirez,

Herbst,

Golinkoff

2023

Front. Dev. Psychol.

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IntroductionInfant-directed speech (IDS) refers to how people in many societies talk with young children. Compared to speech directed to an adult (ADS), IDS includes a slower rate, fewer words per utterance, higher-than-average pitch, and elongated vowels. Although many benefits are associated with using IDS, there is little information on what parents think about IDS. The current study asked: (1) How do mothers conceptualize IDS; (2) Is there an alignment between mothers' IDS beliefs and their speech register when teaching a new word to their child; and (3) How do mothers' IDS beliefs associate with children's expressive language and performance on a word learning task?MethodsFifty-three mothers and their 15- to 21-month-old monolingual English-reared infants (Mage = 17.92, SD = 1.99, 23 males) participated. Mothers were asked to teach their child a novel word and to complete the Parent Language Belief Questionnaire (PLBQ). Mothers' IDS was recorded as they taught their child a novel word and was compared to their ADS from interacting with the experimenter.ResultsFindings revealed that mothers had mixed beliefs about their use of IDS. Yet, most mothers used IDS as they taught their child a novel word. Lastly, mothers' IDS beliefs did not predict children's language skills or word learning at test.DiscussionThe current study is the first to explore whether mothers' beliefs about their use of infant-directed speech align with their actual use of IDS. As the positive benefits between IDS and children's language development have been documented, identifying the barriers surrounding why parents may not use IDS with their children is essential.

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Section: Mothers Have Mixed Beliefs About Infant-directed Speechmentioning

confidence: 86%

Maternal beliefs about infant-directed speech misalign with interactions with their infants

Ramirez,

Herbst,

Golinkoff

2023

Front. Dev. Psychol.

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Integrity Study of the Machined Surface Quality in Hard Turning

Oriabure

Aririguzoh

2023

International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing

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This paper explores the influence of information sources on parents’ awareness knowledge and practice of early childhood education in a rural community in Nigeria. In the brain of a new born child neurons rapidly begin connecting and while this continues forever most of it is complete by age two, this is the basic for early childhood education. This early education encompasses physical well-being, cognitive development, mental and social interaction and ability to read and write. This early childhood education builds stamina and lays foundation for adulthood achievement. 327 respondents constitute parents and guardians who have children between 2-6years old living in Gengere, Suleja, Nigeria. The choice of Suleja, a Northern State in Nigeria, is because more statistical figure of school aged children are on the rise than ever before. Findings suggests that although there is a significant level of awareness, knowledge of early childhood education, not all have fully enrolled their children in early childhood education centres. The study recommended that relevant bodies like the Ministry of Education and policy makers through the mixed approaches of information sources such as friends, radio, opinion leaders, and traditional leaders are used to improve parents’ awareness level of parents and guardians and see that barrier hindering parents from enrolling their children are attended to.

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Teaching Mothers and Fathers About How Children Develop: Parenting Knowledge and Practices

Cited by 2 publications

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Maternal beliefs about infant-directed speech misalign with interactions with their infants

Maternal beliefs about infant-directed speech misalign with interactions with their infants

Integrity Study of the Machined Surface Quality in Hard Turning

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