Abstract
Mainstream psychology of parenting styles minimizes the wisdom of mothers in being able to navigate parenting within a complex ever-changing system. This empirical study involves in-depth interviews conducted in two different contexts. This paper explores the major concerns mothers have about their child-rearing experiences, their children’s welfare, and the impact that these concerns have had on their personal wellbeing. The paper will outline some ways in which mothers attempt to address the barriers to a fulfilling mother-child relationship.
Highlights
The frameworks used in parenting studies today originate in a Eurocentric model conceived almost seven decades ago
The effort has been to distill good parenting behaviors and attitudes that can reliably lead to successful child outcomes (Dornbusch, Ritter, Leiderman, Roberts, & Fraleigh, 1987; Robichaud, Bureau, Ranger, & Mageau, 2019)
Success in child outcomes has most frequently been defined as successful academic performance, though rarely self-regulation and emotional health have been operationalized and measured as dependent variables (Sahithya, Manohari, & Vijaya, 2019; Tani, Pascizzi, & Rafagnino, 2018)
Summary
The frameworks used in parenting studies today originate in a Eurocentric model conceived almost seven decades ago. Advice to parents have involved prescriptions for relating to children as a way of maximizing children’s success. Parents globally confront a plethora of advice from sources scientific and popular, as to how to raise the right kind of child (Weiss & Schwarz, 1996). Much of this advice takes as relevant only in a marginal fashion the specific cultural and economic setting that mothers are raising their children in and even less, target advice to mothers’ concerns for their children’s developmental needs (Delvecchio, Germani, Raspa, Lis, & Mazzeschi, 2020)
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