Abstract
Abstract Introduction: In the child’s first year of life, motor development is critical for the other areas of child development. Beliefs and parenting practices influence the parents’ care and encouragement of their children, reflecting in their motor development; however, the Brazilian literature on this subject is scarce. Objective: to characterize the parental practices and beliefs associated with motor development in the first year of life; and to verify if practices and beliefs are interrelated. Methods: Two questionnaires were developed and applied, one about parenting practices and the other about parental beliefs on motor development in the first year life, to 27 caregivers of children between 12 and 24 months of age, who participated in an aquatic stimulation program. The agreement between practices and beliefs was verified by a graphical method, based on the transformation of ordinal scores to an interval scale using Rasch analysis. Results: The participants had higher levels of education and economic status. They reported a variety of practices focused on the motor development of their children, such as family interaction through playing, toy offers, lap time and free movement space. Conclusion: Most of the practices were based on parental beliefs, for some activities, however, beliefs and practices diverged, demonstrating the complexity inherent to the formation of parental beliefs.
Highlights
In the child’s first year of life, motor development is critical for the other areas of child development
Based on the results found, it can be verified whether the parents promote opportunities for the motor development to emerge
The quality of the home environment is very important for the child development
Summary
In the child’s first year of life, motor development is critical for the other areas of child development. Methods: Two questionnaires were developed and applied, one about parenting practices and the other about parental beliefs on motor development in the first year life, to 27 caregivers of children between 12 and 24 months of age, who participated in an aquatic stimulation program. Results: The participants had higher levels of education and economic status They reported a variety of practices focused on the motor development of their children, such as family interaction through playing, toy offers, lap time and free movement space. The relations the parents establish with their children are based on the need to take care, educate and promote the children’s development, constituting a characteristic set of behaviors that can be defined as parental practices [6]
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