Everyday updates: How parents ask about their young children’s lived experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 026540752098236
Author(s):  
Darcey K. deSouza
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Canadian English ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Parent Child

This research study explores how children respond to solicitations for updates about their (recent) experiences. Instances of parents soliciting updates from their children were collected from over 30 hours of video-recorded co-present family interactions from 20 different American and Canadian families with at least one child between the ages of 3 and 6. Previous research has documented that caregivers of very young children treat them as being able to disclose about events they have experienced (Kidwell, 2011). In building upon the literature on family communication and parent-child interactions as well as the literature on epistemics, this paper explores the concept of “talking about your day” in everyday co-present family interactions, showing three ways in which parents solicit updates from their children: through report solicitations, tracking inquiries, and asking the child to update someone else. Data are in American and Canadian English.

Migraine and Asthma in Childhood: Evidence for Specific Asymmetric Parent-Child Interactions in Migraine and Asthma Families

Cephalalgia ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 790-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Siniatchkin ◽  
E Kirsch ◽  
S Arslan ◽  
S Stegemann ◽  
W-D Gerber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Communication ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Asymmetric Pattern ◽  
The Family ◽  
Healthy Siblings ◽  
Familial Disorder ◽  
Asthma Child ◽  
Parent Child

In spite of the fact that migraine often manifests as a familial disorder, the role of the family in migraine has not been adequately explored. In this study parent-child interactions in 20 families with a child suffering from migraine were analysed and compared with 20 healthy families and 20 families with an asthma child. The families had to solve a puzzle within a limited time. Parent-child interactions within migraine and asthma families were asymmetric, revealing a disease-specific interpersonal context in the family. Communication with the affected child in migraine families was significantly more directive, with more specific instructions and less help, towards migraineurs than with the healthy siblings. Dominance of parents and submissive behaviour of children were the main features of interactions. In asthma families interactions were more conflicting and less cooperative. This study demonstrated a specific, asymmetric, pattern of family interactions predisposing children either to migraine or asthma.

‘Awww, she is feeding you’

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yumei Gan
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Family Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Interactional Competence ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Very Young Children ◽  
The People ◽  
Engagement And Disengagement

Undertaking a video call with very young children can pose significant challenges, as children may wander away or fail to pay attention to the people on the screen. Previous studies have provided important insights into how adults try various strategies to engage young children in such video calls. Less attention has been paid, however, to the children’s perspective: how children orient themselves toward video-mediated communication technologies and the nature of these mediated interactions. Based on 56 recorded hours of naturally occurring video calls between migrant parents and the very young children (aged 8–36 months) they leave behind in China, this article examines how these children spontaneously display engagement and disengagement during a video call. This study highlights children’s interactional competence in engaging with the mediated format of interactions. Very young children can deploy various communicative resources that orient towards the affordance of video-mediated communication technology, such as manoeuvring the camera direction and initiating feeding and showing sequences. The analyses also illustrate that young children actively achieve disengagement in video calls through the artful use of language, body and the material world. These findings contribute to understanding children’s situated practices with digital technology in family communication, and how children are active interlocutors who guide the adults’ actions in moment-by-moment unfolding interactions.

scholarly journals Parent-child interactions during the initial weeks following brain injury in young children.

2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari L. Wade ◽  
H. Gerry Taylor ◽  
Nicolay Chertkoff Walz ◽  
Shelia Salisbury ◽  
Terry Stancin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Parent Child

Parent-Child Interactions shortly after Brain Injury in Young Children

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. S4-S5
Author(s):  
Shari L. Wade ◽  
Britt Nielsen ◽  
Terry Stancin ◽  
H G. Taylor ◽  
Nicolay C. Walz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Parent Child

scholarly journals Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Family: Informal Heritage Language Lessons in Parent–Child Interactions

Multilingua ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Kheirkhah ◽  
Asta Cekaite
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Parent Child Interactions ◽  
Interactional Analysis ◽  
Family Language ◽  
Parent Child

AbstractThe present study explores language socialization patterns in a Persian-Kurdish family in Sweden and examines how “one-parent, one-language” family language policies are instantiated and negotiated in parent–child interactions. The data consist of video-recordings and ethnographic observations of family interactions, as well as interviews. Detailed interactional analysis is employed to investigate parental language maintenance efforts and the child’s agentive orientation in relation to the recurrent interactional practices through which parents attempt to enforce a monolingual, heritage language “context” for parent–child interaction. We examine the interactional trajectories that develop in parents’ requests for translation that target the focus child’s (a7-year-old girl’s) lexical mixings. These practices resembled formal language instruction: The parents suspended the ongoing conversational activity, requested that the child translate the problematic item, modeled and assessed her language use. The instructional exchanges were asymmetrically organized: the parents positioned themselves as “experts”, insisting on the child’s active participation, whereas the child’s (affectively aggravated) resistance was frequent, and the parents recurrently accommodated the child by terminating the language instruction. The study argues that an examination of children’s agency, and the social dynamics characterizing parental attempts to shape children’s heritage language use, can provide significant insights into the conditions for language maintenance

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