Children's Books Research Articles

REPRESENTASI NILAI AKHLAKUL KARIMAH DALAM SERI MENELADANI SIFAT DAN KARAKTER RASULLULLAH

This study aims to explain the nature and character of the Holy Prophetsa as narrated in the series Children's Books Exemplifying the Nature and Character of the Prophet published by Ziyadbooks. This research method is carried out with a qualitative approach by applying the content analysis method. The results of the analysis show that to achieve the purpose of conveying the nature and character of the Holy Prophetsa to children, the narrative used in this book is in the form of short and simple sentences. The form of narration used to explain the nature and character of the Holy Prophet in this book is in the form of descriptive and dialogue. Based on this, it can be concluded that the age and cognitive development of children as readers are the main considerations in the selection of vocabulary and sentence construction used in this book.

Use of Children's Books About Grief as a Therapeutic Tool: A Content Analysis

Bu çalışmanın amacı yas ile ilgili çocuk kitaplarının içeriklerini incelemektir. Çocuk kitapları belirlenirken amaçlı örnekleme yöntemlerinden ölçüt örnekleme kullanılmıştır. Bu doğrultuda; (1) içeriğin yas ile ilgili olması, (2) kahraman bakış açısıyla yazılmış olması ve (3) 5-11 yaş arasına uygun olması ölçütlerini karşılayan 10 çocuk kitabı seçilmiştir. MAXQDA programı kullanılarak içerik analizi yapılmıştır. Tüm kodlar uyum süreciyle ilgili bileşenler, yas tepkileriyle ilgili bileşenler ve kayıpla ilgili bileşenler olmak üzere üç ana tema altında toplanmıştır. Yapılan analiz sonucunda kitaplardaki ifadelerin en çok bilişsel tepkiler (n = 47) koduyla kodlandığı görülmektedir. Duygusal tepkiler (n = 30) ve sosyal destek (n = 17) en sık kullanılan diğer kodlardır. Ayrıca kitaplardaki çizimler incelendiğinde ise üzüntü duygusunu ve sosyal desteği yansıtan çizimlerin kitaplarda daha çok yer aldığı görülmektedir. Sonuç olarak yas sürecini ele alan çocuk kitaplarının özellikle küçük yaş gruplarında ölümü anlamlandırma ve duygusal farkındalık gibi konularda ruh sağlığı uzmanları tarafından terapötik bir araç olarak kullanılabileceği düşünülmektedir.

ANALISIS PEMANFAATAN BUKU CERITA ANAK (HEWAN DAN LINGKUNGANNYA) DALAM PEMBELAJARAN MENGGAMBAR ILUSTRASI SEKOLAH DASAR

This study aims to describe the use of children's story books in learning to draw illustrations for 5th grade students of SDIT Cokroaminoto Garut. The research subjects were 5th grade students. The research method used in this study was descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation. The data were analyzed through the stages of data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The results of research conducted by researchers from the use of children's story books in learning to draw illustrations for the 2021-2022 school year at SDIT Cokroaminoto Garut. Learning evaluation is an assessment carried out on the results of class 5 illustration drawings totaling 40 students with a sufficient percentage of 10% category, 57,5% good category, and 32.5% very good category. Then the obstacles that occur are the lack of concentration of children during learning, the lack of availability of infrastructure

Pengelolaan dan Inventarisir Sarana dan Prasarana di Lingkungan Perpustakaan Daerah Studi Minat Baca Anak, Pojok Baca dan Literasi Talling Story dalam Menumbuhkan Kembangkan Sensori Motorik Pada Anak

This study aims to investigate the management and inventory of facilities and infrastructure in the library area of ??the study area for children's reading interest, reading corners, and storytelling literacy and their impact on sensory-motor development in children. This study uses a descriptive approach by gathering information from available sources. The research findings indicate that there are various well-managed facilities and infrastructure in the library, such as a collection of children's books, interactive games, and comfort facilities that support motor sensory. Effective management and inventory allows children to engage in reading activities and games that stimulate their sensory-motor development. The implications of this study show the importance of good management in creating a library environment that facilitates sensory-motor development in children. This research contributes to our understanding of the role of regional libraries for children's reading interest studies, reading corners, and storytelling literacy in enriching children's sensory-motor experiences. The results of this study can be used as a basis for further improvement in the management of facilities and infrastructure in the library environment which focuses on the sensory-motor development of children.
 

Analisis Literasi Multimodal Buku Cerita Anak Bergambar Sebagai Upaya Pemilihan Bahan Ajar Membaca Permulaan Siswa Sekolah Dasar

Illustrated children's story books are a construction of the world, a perspective that is the result of processing and reading by the creator of the book on other texts he consumes. Picture story books are a medium to offer a view of how the world should be seen and understood. In relation to picture story books, children who are the readers of the stories conveyed in this book will very likely have views of the world around them as views offered by picture story books. Therefore, children and parents should be equipped with the ability to read critically the message conveyed by this picture story book. They must have abilities that allow them not only to be able to critically read narrative texts but also understand how to read pictures, as a mode that appears with verbal texts in storybooks. Multimodal literacy is defined as the knowledge and skills that children must possess, especially, in critically reading verbal texts and especially visual texts. Through this multimodal literacy analysis, it is hoped that we can interpret the messages conveyed by picture story books for elementary school students

AN EVALUATION OF CEMİL KAVUKÇU’S SELO’NUN KUŞLARI (THE BIRDS OF SELO)

Cemil Kavukçu is one of the important writers in Turkish short story after 1980. Kavukçu has written eleven books for children as well as short story books for adults. Selo'nun Kuşları is the first children's book of Cemil Kavukçu. However, the writer chose the stories he thought the children would like from the stories he had written for adults before and compiled it into a short story book. The aim of this study is to examine Cemil Kavukçu's work called Selo'nun Kuşları in terms of subject, message, characters, language and expression features, which are the basic elements of children's literature. In this direction, document analysis, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The objects of study is the stories in Kavukçu's story book Selo'nun Kuşları. Information about Cemil Kavukçu, children's literature and basic elements of children's literature was obtained from literature review. . As a result, it has been found that the stories that make up Selo'nun Kuşları were not written for child readers when they were first written, but they are still suitable for evaluation in terms of the basic elements of children's literature.

Sexual Development: Reproduction in Children's Books

Cinsel eğitim yaşamın başlangıcından itibaren sağlıklı gelişim sürecinde etkili olan bir kavramdır. İnsan bedeni ve gelişimi, şiddetten korunma ve güvende olma gibi üreme konusu da cinsel eğitimin bir parçasıdır. Bu araştırmada çocukların üreme konusuna yönelik sorularına yanıt verebilecek nitelikte, amaçlı örnekleme yoluyla belirlenen 11 resimli çocuk kitabı oluşturulan temalar çerçevesinde incelenmiştir. Kitaplarda geçen iletilerin içeriklerini ayrıntılarıyla ortaya koymak amacıyla bu araştırma doküman incelemesi yoluyla gerçekleştirilmiştir. Sonuçlara göre kitaplarda üremeyle ilgili bilgilerin verilmesi, biyolojik cinsiyet, cinsel organlar ve özellikleri, cinsel birliktelik, döllenme, hamilelik ve doğum süreçleri, üreme ve cinsellikle ilgili resimler, çocuk sahibi olma durumu ve ebeveynlere yönelik öneriler gibi temalara çeşitli şekillerde yer verildiği görülmüştür. Kitaplarda yer alan içerikler ile ayrıntıları farklılaşmaktadır. Cinsel eğitimin yaşa ve gelişim düzeyine uygunluğu, cinsel eğitimin ölçünleri ve içeriği göz önünde bulundurularak bulgular tartışılmıştır. Cinsel eğitimde kullanılabilecek bir araç olan resimli çocuk kitaplarının içeriğinin ve hitap ettiği yaş grubunun belirtilmesi, ebeveynlere cinsel eğitimde rehberlik edilmesi, cinsel eğitimde yaş ve gelişim düzeyine uygun ölçünlerin belirlenmesi ve uygulanması çocukların sağlıklı cinsel eğitim almalarına katkı sağlayacaktır.

Implementing a group-based multi-component early child development intervention through the government health system in rural Bangladesh: A feasibility study.

Children in low- and middle-income countries face an increased risk of impaired cognitive development due to contaminated environments, poor nutrition, and inadequate responsive stimulation from caregivers. Implementing multi-component, community-level interventions may reduce these risks; however, there is little evidence supporting implementation of these interventions at scale. We assessed the feasibility of implementing a group-based intervention that included responsive stimulation, maternal and child nutrition, water and sanitation, and childhood lead exposure prevention through the government health system in Chatmohar, Bangladesh. After implementation, we conducted 17 in-depth interviews with frontline health service providers and 12 key informant interviews with their supervisors and managers to explore the facilitators and difficulties implementing such a complex programme within the health system. Factors facilitating implementation included: high quality training and skill level of providers, support from community members, family, and supervisors, positive relationships between providers and participants, and provision of children's toys and books free of cost. Difficulties included increased workload of the providers, complicated group-based yet stage-specific delivery where providers had to manage a large group of mother-child dyads representing many different child age-groups at once, and logistics difficulties in providing toys and books through a centralised health system process. Key informants made suggestions to ensure effective government-level scale-up including engaging relevant NGOs as partners, identifying feasible ways to make toys available, and offering providers meaningful even if non-monetary rewards. These findings can be used to shape the design and delivery of multi-component child development interventions to be delivered through the health system.

Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning-Based Algorithms to Predict the Early Childhood Development Among Under Five Children in Bangladesh

In this research, an effort has been made to apply a number of classifiers to predict Early Child Development (ECD) in the context of Bangladesh using the Bangladesh multiple indicator cluster survey, 2019 data set (i.e., to evaluate which sort of algorithm best identifies ECDI). To predict the ECD, nine well-known machine learning algorithms were applied, including Linear Regression (LR), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Naïve Bayes (NB), Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operation (LASSO), Classification Trees (CT), AdaBoost and Neural Network (NN). Children aged 48-59 months who were female, attending early education, reading three or more children's books, having playthings, having normal nutritional status, and were not disabled had a higher percentage of completing at least three childhood development domains, according to the bivariate analysis results. We found several performance parameters for the classification of early childhood development, including the following: Accuracy (LR) = 67.87%, AUC (LR) = 67.49%; Accuracy (RF) = 67.23%, AUC (RF) = 67.19%; Accuracy (SVM) = 67.37%, AUC (SVM) = 67.64%; Accuracy (NB) = 67.55%, AUC (NB) = 66.80%; Accuracy (LASSO) = 68.04%, AUC (LASSO) = 67.75. Based on the results of this investigation, LASSO regression predicts the ECD in Bangladeshi children moderately better than any other machine learning method utilized in this study.

Picture books for young children of incarcerated parents: Through the lens of bibliotherapy

AbstractResearch suggests that bibliotherapy can help children cope with life's challenges through age‐appropriate reading and storytelling. Bibliotherapy has been employed to assist children in dealing with grief, divorce, adoption and other stressors. However, limited studies have investigated how this approach can support young children with incarcerated parents. Utilizing bibliotherapy as a framework, this study conducts a thematic analysis of children's picture books published between 1977 and 2014, featuring children of incarcerated parents as main characters to better understand the challenges they face. The study aims to explore the challenges depicted among child characters in picture books addressing parental incarceration for a young reading audience over almost 50 years. Our findings reveal that child characters grapple with various emotional, psychological and social challenges related to the sudden separation from their loved ones. We discuss the implications of each finding in greater detail.

Bir Kaynaştırma Öğrencisinin Okuma ve Dinleme Becerilerinin Geliştirilmesi: Bir Eylem Araştırması

Inclusion students, like all students, need to develop strong reading and listening skills to communicate effectively, understand instructions, and retain information. These skills are also important for their independence and future career success. Improving these skills can help inclusion students to achieve their academic, social, and professional goals. The main purpose of this research is to improve the reading and listening skills of an inclusion student studying at the 2nd grade level. For this purpose, the study was designed and conducted as an action research. First of all, the current level of the student in reading and listening skills was determined. Interactive reading and repeated reading methods were used in the intervention process. The intervention process of the study lasted for 6 weeks. In this process, 14 different children's picture books were read by the student's parents using the interactive reading method. Then, the student was allowed to read children's picture books until he reached the level of free reader. As a result of the research, it was concluded that the student made fewer reading errors than before the intervention process, the rate of word recognition and the reading prosody score increased, and the success of reading comprehension and listening comprehension improved.

PENGUKURAN TINGKAT EFEKTIFITAS SISTEM INFORMASI PERPUSTAKAAN MENGGUNAKAN TEORI DELONE & MCLEAN

The Reading Group of Gelaran Jambu Daar El-fikr or often called Gelaran Jambu was initiated and pioneered in 2008. It's located in Jambu Village, Kayen Kidul District, Kediri Regency. As an alternative education for local residents besides school, it is also a creative community that wants to develop personal potential through book- based education. Gelaran Jambu has more than 3000 books with various titles and genres. Children's books to adult books are available. Since September 2021 Gelaran Jambu has been using Senayan Library Management System (Slims), a web-based open-source application to fulfill library needs. Slims can be accessed for free and modified according to library needs. After the system has been operated for some time, it is necessary to measure its effectiveness to see the extent to which the goals have been achieved. Measuring the effectiveness of information systems using the Delone & Mclean IS Success Model theory with the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method. It is using a quantitative approach with descriptive statistical research techniques. The tool used to analyze the data is SmartPLS. The sample data used was 47. The results found three acceptable hypotheses and six hypotheses that were not accepted. The accepted hypotheses are System Quality to usage and User Satisfaction. And Usage to net benefits. Hypotheses that are not accepted: Information Quality to usage and User Satisfaction, Service Quality to usage and User Satisfaction, Usage to User Satisfaction, and User Satisfaction to Net benefits.

A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Use of a Locally Developed Children's Book to Increase Shared Reading and Parent-Child Interactions in Rural Zambia.

Early reading interventions hold promise for increasing language and literacy development in young children and improving caregiver-child interactions. To engage rural caregivers and young children in home reading, Zambian child psychologists and education specialists developed a culturally representative, local language children's book targeted at pre-grade 1 children. We qualitatively assessed community acceptability and use of the book distributed to households with young children in two provinces of Zambia. We conducted 15 focus group discussions (FGDs) with women (n=117) who received the "Zambian folktales adapted stories for young children" book. A codebook was created a priori, based on established themes in the guide; content analysis was conducted in Nvivo v12. Data were interpreted against the Theoretical Framework on Acceptability. Respondents described wide acceptability of the children's book across multiple framework constructs. Respondents believed the book was culturally appropriate for its folktale structure and appreciated the morals and lessons provided by the stories. Respondents described using the book in multiple ways including reading in one-on-one or group settings, asking the child questions about the narrative or pictures, and providing additional commentary on the actions or figures in the pictures. Respondents believed the books were helping children grow their vocabulary and early literacy skills. The book's simple vocabulary facilitated use by less educated caregivers. The primary concern voiced was the ability of low literacy caregivers to utilize the book for reading. The children's book was widely considered acceptable by rural Zambian communities. It provided a platform for an additional method of caregiver-child interactions in these households for reading, dialogue, and oral storytelling. Shared reading experiences have potentially substantial benefits for the language development and emergent literacy of young children. Programs to develop and deliver culturally acceptable books to households with limited access should be considered by governments and funders.

Father and Toddler Language During Shared Book Reading with Text‐Based and Wordless Picture Books

AbstractWhile the association between shared book reading (SBR) and child language development is well documented, there has been less focus on how book characteristics may differentially elicit parents' language input and hence differentially relate to children's language skills during this activity. Moreover, despite the positive and unique role that fathers have been shown to play for children's language, the father‐child SBR evidence base is small. Accordingly, the present study examined variation in father and child language quantity, quality, complexity, and function during SBR with text‐based and wordless picture books and explored associations between fathers' language and children's language during these episodes. Participants were 46 father‐child dyads (20 females). Fathers' mean age was 38.74 years (SD = 5.74), and children's mean age was 37.89 months (SD = 2.71). Findings indicate that fathers in the text‐book condition produced significantly greater language quality, extended the topic more, and produced more conversational utterances but described and labeled pictures less than fathers in the wordless picture book condition. Fathers' language during both SBR episodes showed differential links with child's language and may suggest that fathers were fine‐tuning their language in accordance with their child's language skills (effect sizes ranged from r = .45 to r = .78). It is possible that variation in book content may encourage different types of learning with distinct effects on different domains of child language. Should future research replicate such differential relations, findings may inform caretakers and early childhood interventions with the aim of promoting children's books tailored to specific language areas of interest.

Analysis of Character Education in the Storybook of The Champion Who Has a Soft Heart by Yusman Nasution

The current era can be witnessed by phenomena shows the decharacterization of the nation. The formation of character of learning is the full responsibility of the teacher then can insert character education through learning that will be delivered to students. The aims of this research are (1) to describe the structure (2) To describe the values of character education in the books (3) Explaining the relevance of learning literature in elementary school. This research uses a qualitative descriptive. Techniques using interviews and document analysis. Data sources include a children's fiction book entitled "The Champion Who Has a Soft Heart" by Yusman Nasution. The results can be concluded (1) 3 children's fiction books has complete of structures (2) There are 9 educational values story entitled "The Champion Who Has a Soft Heart" by Yusman Nasution has religious values, honestly, discipline, hard work, curiosity, repect for achievement, friendly, like to read, and social care. (3) The children's stories from the three books are suitable to be used as literature learning materials in elementary school. This is evidenced by the existence of KD 3.9 Observing the characters 4.9 Delivering the results of identifying characters, especially in IV grade of elementary school.

Exploring the Design of Chinese Ethnic Totems in Children's Picture Books

Cultural heritage can start from "believing", just like believing that "Santa Claus is real", so that Chinese children, and even children from other countries, can understand China's ancient myths through our traditional cultural totem, so that they can identify with China's history and culture from their hearts. The Chinese traditional totem is engraved with the wisdom and creation of the Chinese ancestors, and has constructed the Chinese history and culture of more than 5000 years. It is through this inheritance that Chinese culture can enable us to constantly understand and innovate. This paper takes the design of Tujia white tiger totem in children's picture books as an example to think about how national totem can be spread through children's picture books.

A cultural analysis of the book "A Warm Winter"

Children's books are an important tool that enables the child to communicate with the world he lives in through written and visual ways. Since learning starts at an early age, it is essential for the child to read books suitable for his/her age and purpose in order to take part in the adult world as a qualified individual who has acquired the habit of reading and to reach cognitive adulthood. As in all types of literature, cultural differences can be seen in the translations of children's literature. These differences can be encountered visually or textually. The aim of the study is the linguistic/visual reflections of the social and cultural elements given in the work to be examined and which translation strategies are used to transfer them to the target language. Within the scope of the study, first of all, the external and internal features of children's books will be mentioned, and then the Turkish edition of Feridun Oral's "Nobody Will Be Cold This Winter" by Yapı Kredi Publishing in February 2020 and the English translation of Melis Seyhun Çalışlar will be published by Yapı Kredi Publishing in October. The 2019 edition will be examined within the scope of Vermeer's Skopos theory.

Interactive design method for children's table screen

With the introduction of the national double reduction policy, the needs of children and parents have become diversified. Especially, traditional children's picture books can no longer meet the learning and living needs of contemporary children, and the cross-media development of children's books is the general trend. In children's reading scene quality began to improve the situation, interactive children's books on the table screen will also lead the tide. Table screen interaction will increase users' sense of reading experience by changing the way users read. Its significance lies in placing picture books, cards or other products related to the content of children's books in front of smart devices, and using auxiliary devices to convey users' interaction behavior between the desktop and the books to the smart devices. Through image processing technology, users' fingertip operation, painting, page turning and other behaviors can be identified to present another scene on smart devices, bringing users a more immersive learning experience.

Design In Children's Books

Arka Plan: Çocuk kitaplarının tasarım ürünü olması gerektiği ve bu tasarımda yazar, illüstratör, tasarımcı ile yayıncının ekip çalışması yapması gerektiği vurgulanmıştır. 
 Amaç: Bu araştırma ile çocuk kitaplarının tasarım özellikleri araştırılmış ve Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Grafik Tasarım Programı öğrencilerinin konuyla ilgili tasarımları incelenmiştir. Bu araştırma ile çocuk kitaplarındaki tasarımın önemini vurgulamak amaçlanmıştır.
 Yöntem: Bu makalede Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi TBMYO Tasarım bölümü öğrencilerinin, illüstrasyon dersinde dönem ödevi olarak hazırladıkları çocuk kitapları “görsel doküman” (sak, 2020:231) olarak değerlendirilmiş ve incelenmiştir. Nitel araştırma yönteminin önemli veri kaynaklarından doküman analizi içinde sınıflandırılan görsel dokümanlar, incelenmiş, çizimler renkler ve yaratılan kitap karakterleri değerlendirilmiş ve teoriler oluşturulmuştur. 
 Bulgular: Çocuk kitaplarında resim dili ile metin dilinin büyük oranda örtüşmediği görülmüş, tasarım dersi öğrenci uygulamalarında bu sorun giderilmeye çalışılmıştır. 
 Sonuç: Resimli çocuk kitapları sadece bir kitap değil, organize bir tasarım işidir. 
 
 Son zamanlarda çocuk kitaplarının niteliği sıkça tartışılmaktadır. Çocuk kitapları yazar, çizer, tasarımcı ve eğitimcilerin tamamlayıcı çalışmalarını kapsar. İyi tasarlanmış çocuk kitapları, erken yaşlardan yetişkinliğe ve ötesine kadar geniş bir okuyucu yelpazesine sahiptir. İyi tasarlanmış ve illüstre edilmiş çocuk kitapları, daha ilk görüşte görsel yapısıyla okuyucuyu cezbedip kendine çekebilir. 
 Çocuk kitabı illüstratörünün, grafik tasarımcı ile karıştırılıyor veya birlikte düşünülüyor olması, bu konudaki endişeleri arttırabilir. İyi bir çizerin, iyi bir tasarımcı olabileceği inancı, birçok nitelikli ressama, çocukların mutlu olmadıkları kitaplar ürettirebilir. Bu kudretli ressamları çocukların da tanıyıp saygı duymasını beklemek doğru değildir. Çünkü çocuk çizenle değil, çizilenle ilgilenir. Bu anlamda iyi bir çizer ya da ressam olmak, çoğu zaman iyi bir kitap tasarımcısı olmak anlamına gelmez. Ressam, çizer ya da sanatçı hayalindekileri görselleştirirken, tasarımcı o görsele anlam verir. Dolayısıyla çocuk kitapları resimlerinin sadece sanat endişesi taşımasını beklemek, her zaman doğru olmayabilir. Bu beklenti resimlerin anlaşılırlığını ve metinle olan bütünlüğünü olumsuz etkileyebilir. Bazen sanat, herkes için anlaşılır değildir. Oysa çocuk kitapları ve bu kitaplardaki resimler, her zaman anlaşılabilir olmalıdır. Resimler kitabı sadece eğlenceli kılmak için değil, anlaşılır yapmak için de kullanılmalıdır. Zira anlaşılır her resim, aynı zamanda çocuğun hayal kurduğu, düşündüğü, eğlendiği, mutlu olduğu, öğrendiği ve kendi dünyası ile gerçek dünya arasında kurduğu bir köprüdür. 
 Bu makalede, Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Teknik Bilimler Meslek Yüksekokulu Grafik Tasarım Programı öğrencilerinin hikâyesini yazıp, karakter ve sahnelerini çizdiği ve tasarladığı çocuk kitapları, çocuk kitapları tasarımı açısından değerlendirilmiştir. Bu örneklerde karakter yaratılması, sahnelerin çizilmesi, sayfa ve kitabın tasarlanması aşamaları dikkate alınmıştır. Metnin çizilenler ile örtüşüyor olması iyi bir çocuk kitabının önemli göstergelerindendir. Araştırmaya konu olan kitaplar, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden belge analizi yöntemi ile incelenmiştir. Doküman incelemesi, araştırılması hedeflenen olgu veya olgular hakkında bilgi içeren yazılı materyallerin analizini kapsar.

Current Parents and Children's Leisure Time

This paper presents research focused on investigating contemporary parents and selected aspects of their influence on children's leisure time, emphasizing how and to what extent parents organize their children's leisure time. Parents from different regions of Slovakia participated in the research, and we processed the results using descriptive statistics. For comparison, we used the Student T-test, Mann-Whitney Test (for comparing two groups), and Kruskal-Wallis Test (for comparing three or more groups). The research showed that respondents judge current parenting as different and significantly more challenging compared to the past. They perceive differences in the sphere of leisure time of families, especially in the fact that parents give fewer responsibilities to children than the previous generation of parents. The research also shows that the problem of contemporary families is the absence of time spent together by parents and children, the absence of family communication, and the high level of organization of children's leisure time by parents. The authors point out that parents in a postmodern society have to deal with the difficulties of ensuring the family's economic stability, which is why two-career marriages are a reality in contemporary families. It has been proven that today's parents are busier with work and are more engaged outside the family, as a result of which they spend less time with their children, which negatively affects their upbringing, there is a lack of quality family communication, and children feel lonely and deprived of parental attention. It was also found that in the modern family, students are involved in housework much less than in the past, so they mostly have no experience of work in this aspect. It is emphasized that the compensation of parental influence with other means of education - media, technology (smartphones, tablets, computers), and the virtual world (social networks) is alarming. The decline in the development of reading interests in the family is outlined, and the tendency of parents to replace the joint reading of children's books with modern technologies is revealed.