Parent-child group
Parent-child group (also mother-child group ) is an umbrella term for offers for small children who are accompanied by a parent. These include crawling groups , play groups , music groups or parent-child gymnastics . Since most of the participants in these groups were mothers, the term mother-child group was initially created, which has since been replaced by the term parent-child group.
Parent-child groups arose in the 1970s as part of private childcare initiatives and were conceptualized in the mid-1970s at the Bavarian State Institute for Early Childhood Education . Initially, they were supposed to compensate for the lack of kindergarten places, later they saw themselves as a supplement to the kindergarten offer and were part of the dispute over the educational reform. In the course of this, there were numerous parenting initiatives that organized offers and created new funding opportunities. In addition, it was shown that parent-child groups can be a suitable form of parenting education. It is now available in a wide variety of forms and from different providers. There are parent-child groups with professional leadership as courses in family education centers , adult education centers, mothers centers and similar institutions. There are also parent-child groups in church parishes. They are often run on a voluntary basis . The meetings take place on a regular basis.
Under the direction of pedagogically trained specialists, family education centers in particular offer parent-child groups. The goals are to enable contact between people in the same life situation, to exchange experiences and information as well as to impart knowledge about the age-appropriate behavior of the child. Play opportunities are created, but also reflection on one's own parenting behavior is encouraged. Practical suggestions are supplemented by information about pedagogical, psychological and social contexts. A holistic development of the children is to be promoted through the creation of diverse play situations and the opportunities for contact between the children and with other adults. Usually a group consists of eight to ten adults with their children. The group leader supports parents and children in the respective learning or experience situation. She takes care of the outer framework of the group, takes care of the organization of the offers, rooms, the necessary materials and games, which take into account the respective situation of all participants. She is the contact person for parents and children alike.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Schnabel: Cooperation between kindergartens and parent-child groups? From: Our youth 1999, issue 12, pp. 522-526. online . Retrieved January 23, 2020
- ↑ Angelika Tuschhoff, Rita Daude: The basic concept of parent-child group work in family education centers . Family manual . Retrieved January 22, 2020
literature
- Jane Peters & Heather Skirton: Social support within a mother and child group: An ethnographic study situated in the UK Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, 2013. abstract
- Ko-Ling Chan et al .: An Evaluative Study on the Effectiveness of a Parent-Child Parallel Group Model . On-line
- Gilles-Bacciu, Astrid: Unusually successful: parent-child courses in institutions for adult and family education. THE magazine for adult education, 2017/1, 31–33. https://doi.org/10.3278/DIE1701W031
- Anne Zipfel et al .: Family education in parent-child groups Basics - Perspectives - Materials. Foundation of the University of Hildesheim. online . Retrieved January 25, 2020