‘Build a future champion’: exploring a branded activity-tracking platform for children and parents

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110071
Author(s):  
Ben Lyall
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Promotional Material ◽  
Activity Tracking ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Software Studies ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Corporate Interests

This article explores a specific – but highly plastic – activity-tracking platform. Marketed to parents, ‘Milo Champions’ encourages the monitoring and rewarding of children, based on their activities and behaviours. The platform incorporates a popular Australian food brand – Nestlé’s Milo – and is designed for children aged between 6 and 12. Utilising walkthrough and software studies methodologies, the platform is traced by analysing app interfaces and online promotional material. Milo Champions is a niche example in the growing category of children’s activity-tracking apps: one that wraps masculinised logics of self-tracking around a multitude of parenting practices and envisages them, being deployed through feminised practices of caregiving. This article adds to prescient discussions about the ‘datafied child’ of the 21st century, and how health and wellbeing informatics are entangled with corporate interests.

Modeling Contextual Influences on Parents With Intellectual Disability and Their Children

2011 ◽  
Vol 116 (6) ◽  
pp. 419-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Wade ◽  
Gwynnyth Llewellyn ◽  
Jan Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Direct Influence ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Children And Parents

Abstract Many parents with intellectual disability experience living conditions associated with risk for children and parents. This study used structural equation modeling to test a theoretical model of the relationships among parent, child, family, and contextual variables in 120 Australian families where a parent had an intellectual disability. Findings revealed that parenting practices had a direct effect on children's well being, that social support was associated with children's well being through the mediator of parenting practices, and that access to social support had a direct influence on parenting practices. Implications of the findings for research, intervention, and policy are explored, with the goal of promoting optimal well being for children who are raised by parents with intellectual disability.

scholarly journals Marine harmful algal blooms, human health and wellbeing: challenges and opportunities in the 21st century

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Berdalet ◽  
Lora E. Fleming ◽  
Richard Gowen ◽  
Keith Davidson ◽  
Philipp Hess ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressures ◽  
Global Challenge ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Need

Microalgal blooms are a natural part of the seasonal cycle of photosynthetic organisms in marine ecosystems. They are key components of the structure and dynamics of the oceans and thus sustain the benefits that humans obtain from these aquatic environments. However, some microalgal blooms can cause harm to humans and other organisms. These harmful algal blooms (HABs) have direct impacts on human health and negative influences on human wellbeing, mainly through their consequences to coastal ecosystem services (fisheries, tourism and recreation) and other marine organisms and environments. HABs are natural phenomena, but these events can be favoured by anthropogenic pressures in coastal areas. Global warming and associated changes in the oceans could affect HAB occurrences and toxicity as well, although forecasting the possible trends is still speculative and requires intensive multidisciplinary research. At the beginning of the 21st century, with expanding human populations, particularly in coastal and developing countries, mitigating HABs impacts on human health and wellbeing is becoming a more pressing public health need. The available tools to address this global challenge include maintaining intensive, multidisciplinary and collaborative scientific research, and strengthening the coordination with stakeholders, policymakers and the general public. Here we provide an overview of different aspects of the HABs phenomena, an important element of the intrinsic links between oceans and human health and wellbeing.

scholarly journals The Influence of College Education on Children and Parents in Low-Income Families

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Tighe ◽  
Pamela Davis-Kean
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
College Education ◽  
Educational Expectations ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
Children's Achievement ◽  
Low Income Families ◽  
College Educated ◽  
High Educational

Research in developmental psychology often contains samples where education and income are highly related. This study examines characteristics of low-income families who have at least one parent with a college education and how their children’s achievement and parenting practices compare to other types of families. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study ‘98, 768 families were identified as low-income and college-educated. The majority of parents were White, working, and married, with high educational expectations. Children from low-income, college-educated families scored higher on achievement tests compared to children from low-income, less-educated and high-income, less-educated families. Compared to these same two types of families, low-income, college-educated parents were more involved in school and home activities, such as taking their child to libraries. The present findings extend understanding of, and confront common stereotypes about, families living in or near poverty. Even when lacking financial resources, education may provide a protective buffer for low-income families.

scholarly journals From the Cottage to the Cage – Exploring the Efficacy of Complexity Leadership Theory in Addressing 21st Century Workplace Toxicity.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morgan Danaher
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Complexity Leadership ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Complexity Leadership Theory ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
Autocratic Leadership ◽  
Illegal Acts

The issue of workplace toxicity constitutes a major problem for employers, employees and society at large. Toxicity in a workplace context relates to damaging behaviours perpetrated by individuals and organisations that netatively impact on the health and wellbeing of others. Workplace toxicty is habitually associated with activities such as bullying, harrassment, unethical and even illegal acts. In this article, today’s workplace is likenened to a cage where ambition and greed drive people to engage in toxic behaviour to fight for whatever scarce rewards are on offer. Set against a backdrop of continuous demands on employees in a era of constant change and challenge, leadership practice in the 21st century is understandably seeped in complexity. Whilst conditions of scarcity are in fact constructed by employers in today’s lean environments, workplace toxicity has significant implications for organisational leaders in terms of work place disputes, absenteeism and litigation etc. Twentieth century hierarchial and autocratic leadership models are now deemed to be both obsolete and wholly inadedgate to inform leadership practice in the knowledge era. This conceptual article looks at the efficacy of complexity leadership theory (CLT) in empowering today’s leader to better understand and address 21st century workplace toxicity.

scholarly journals Rethinking Tourist Wellbeing through the Concept of Slow Adventure

Sports ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Farkić ◽  
Steve Taylor
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
General Health ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Outdoor Experience ◽  
Meaningful Experiences

The necessity for humans inhabiting the 21st century to slow down and take time to carry out daily practices frames the discourse of this research note. We suggest reconceptualising tourist wellbeing through the concept of slow adventure, as a response to the cult of speed and as a vehicle for engaging in deep, immersive and more meaningful experiences during journeys in the outdoors. We suggest that slow adventure has the potential to improve people’s general health and wellbeing through mindful enjoyment and consumption of the outdoor experience and thus bring people back to a state of mental and physical equilibrium. In so doing, we argue that extending the concept to include discussions around the psychological and social aspects of slow adventure is needed.

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