Research On The Intergenerational Differences In The Concept Of Self-care Ability Training For Young Children

The self-care ability of children is of great importance to the future development of children.With the increase of two-job families,it's inevitable for grandparents to be involved in the activities of children.Because to the influence of the difference of generation gap,there are different characteristics in cultivating the self-care abilities of children between parents and grandparents and family conflicts occur from time to time.The difference in the cultivation of self-care ability in life comes from the differences on the concept of cultivation of the self-care ability for children in life for the both parties.Therefore,this paper makes effort to explore the differences on the concept of cultivation of the self-care ability for children in life between parents and grandparents and provide parents and grandparents with beneficial advice on how to raise children.In this study,the paper adopts a questionnaire method.The compilation of questionnaire regards the compilation model of the socialization belief questionnaire of Cheah parents as a reference and the self-care ability is divided into two parts to observe,such as self-care ability in life and self-learning ability in study.The questionnaire mainly includes the following aspects: attaching great significance to the cultivation of self-care ability for children,the developing awareness of self-care ability of children,the attribution of formation of self-care ability of children,the degree of recognition of the way in which parents or grandparents cultivate their children's self-care ability,and what self-care ability children should master,and developing the strategies of developing the self-care ability of children.The research object was 100 parents and 100 grandparents of a private kindergarten in Shanghai and 200 questionnaires were collected,the recovery rate was 100%,and the rate of efficiency was 100%.All in all,based on the orientation of natural growth,grandparents still lack understanding of the importance of self-care ability of children.Based on the orientation of cultivation,parents attach great importance to the development of self-care ability to promote the development of independent spirit,self-confidence,concentration,etc.Parents are more inclined to education,while grandparents are more inclined to nurture.Parents have no enough time to stay with their children but they pay more attention to the methods of education.Parents believe that grandparents show too much love to their grandchildren,and grandparents believe that parents are short of patience to their children.Parents pay more attention to the training of children's self-care ability rules than their grandparents.It's drawn the following conclusions after the analysis of data: 1.Parents attach more greater importance to the cultivation of self-care ability of their children than grandparents.2.Parents pay more attention to self-care ability in study and grandparents pay more attention to self-care ability in life.3.In terms of the purpose of developing the self-care ability of children in life,both parents and grandparents believe that simply cultivating the independently self-care ability of children is the most important reason.However,parents attach more importance to develop the children's sense of independence,confidence,concentration,personality,and other aspects of development through the cultivation of the self-care ability of children in life than grandparents.4.For the cultivation of self-care ability in life,parents pay more attention to the ability to fall asleep on time and simply sort out toys.For the cultivation of self-care ability in study,parents pay more attention to picking and placing books,picking up and placing school supplies as required,and the cultivation of taking advantage of these abilities in accordance with the rules.5.For the forming attribution of self-care ability of children,both parents and grandparents believe that external factors such as the family environment,children's daily experience,and education are more important.6.For the strategy of cultivating children's self-care ability,both parents and grandparents all attach importance to strategies of guidance,but parents are more inclined to encourage strategies by setting up samples.7.For the degree of recognition of the cultivation of children's self-care ability from parents,grandparents much more agree with the cultivation of self-care ability of children from their parents.Taking into the above conclusions account,it's proposed the following suggestions: 1.It's necessary for parents and grandparents to improve the concept of cultivating children.2.Parents and grandparents should strengthen their communication with each other.3.Grandparents should learn to let their grandchildren go appropriately.4.Grandparents and children should strengthen communication each other.5.Parents should learn to wait for their children.6.Parents should learn to understand the educational concept of grandparents.