Parental attitudes have been the focus of attention of researchers for many years. It seems important that parents' attitudes change in parallel with the age and development of their children. Current studies and theories on understanding this show broad consistency in this direction. This study discusses the effect of dynamic parenting attitude depending on the developmental stages of children. While doing this, current parental attitudes, evaluation of scientific studies and developmental stages were thoroughly investigated by thematic synthesis method. Apart from the static understanding, the model that emerged as a result of the study is dynamically meaningful and three main parenting attitudes have been developed; counseling, friendship and libertarian. To ensure these attitudes functional, researcher collected data by interview over children (0-6, 7-12, 13 + years old) and their parents. In this sense, the counseling attitude is accepted as informing, advising, and focusing on the needs, goals, and preferences of child; friendly attitude also includes more togetherness, conversation, sharing and support; and libertarian attitude, on the other hand, it seems critical to feel as an individual, to get support, to consult their ideas and to ask for help that will require them to take responsibility. The dynamic parenting attitude including counseling, friendship and libertarian makes it important for educators to show a more meaningful approach to the development of the individual. However, since it is a qualitative study with this new attitude, it would be valuable to study these attitudes with different research methods such as quantitative and experimental study.

Authors:
Mustafa Tekke, Duzce University, Turkey

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Mustafa Tekke is currently an Associate Professor of Education Psychology at Duzce University, Turkey

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