Abstract

ALTAFIM, Elisa Rachel Pisani  and  RODRIGUES, Olga Maria Piazentin Rolim. Maternal educational practices during the first year of life. J. Hum. Growth Dev. [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.3, pp. 257-262. ISSN 0104-1282.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7322/jhgd.105999.

INTRODUCTION: The strategies used by parents in education and childcare play a major role in the child's development and health OBJECTIVE: To describe and analyse the maternal educational practices during the first year of life METHODS: A total of 250 mothers of infants between 1-12 months participated in the study. The data was collected using the Parental Styles Inventory for Mothers of Babies (IEPMB RESULTS: Mothers used the positive parenting practice: Monitoring Positive. However negative practices were also present in the repertoire of the participants, especially Relaxed Discipline CONCLUSION: The negative practices were not common in the behavioural repertoire of the mothers, so this phase is an appropriate stage to promote preventative interventions aimed at improving the mother-infant relationship, and therefore impacting health prevention, health promotion and child development

Keywords : educational practices; maternal behaviour; mother-child relationship; the first year of life.

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