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Chinese and Turkish Parents Reflective Parenting: Accelerating Shifts in Contemporary Parenting During Pandemic Contexts
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2025) Lehner-Mear, Rachel; Xu, Yuwei; Liu, Chang; Yu, Yun; Toran, Mehmet; Sak, Ramazan; Sahin-Sak, Ikbal Tuba
During the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly during periods of quarantine, parents and children were sometimes together in ways which contrasted their pre-pandemic life. This paper uses a reflective parenting lens and processual approach to analyse the quarantine experiences of twenty-four parents of three-to-six-year-olds from China and T & uuml;rkiye, gathered in semi-structured interviews. The paper reveals not only that Chinese and Turkish parents were reflective but that such reflections engaged with contemporary shifts in parenting, in particular: (i) the role of the parent; (ii) 'fixing' the child; (iii) the parent-child hierarchy; and (iv) grandparent involvement in parenting. The practicalities of the pandemic context are shown to enhance social evolution towards reflective parenting by increasing parent-child interaction. The paper also highlights that practising reflective parenting is sometimes challenging, uncomfortable and partial. Structural issues in Chinese and Turkish contemporary life which hinder reflective parenting are highlighted, including working patterns, grandparent involvement, and social scripts that interact with parenting practices. Reflective parenting, assumed to be less common in these contexts, may be inhibited by structural dimensions which had reduced impact in the quarantine period. However, when parents are reflective, they define their own practices and resist, at least in part, traditional notions of parenting.
Parents and Children During the Covid-19 Quarantine Process: Experiences From Turkey and China
(Sage Publications inc, 2021) Toran, Mehmet; Sak, Ramazan; Xu, Yuwei; Sahin-Sak, Ikbal Tuba; Yu, Yun
This paper reports Turkish and Chinese parents' experiences with their 3-6 year-old children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Thirteen Turkish and 11 Chinese parents participated in a study that employed semi-structured interviews to examine participant self-perceived experiences. Findings show that the study revealed many commonalities in the experiences of Turkish and Chinese parents with their children during the COVID-19 quarantine process. Cultural differences between parents did not appear to significantly reflect the responses of parents during this extraordinary period. Parents mostly described difficulties with home quarantine. Most parents stated that their daily schedule and routines had changed as a result of home quarantine. Parents also said that they were unaware of their children's developmental progress and the extent to which their children had grown up before the quarantine. Parents shared both positive and negative experiences during the process. Since the quarantine process is an extraordinary experience for all family members, parents should be encouraged to put those positive experiences and acquisitions into their future life.