Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak poses serious challenges to traditional parenting practices. ICT-assisted parenting, in which parents seek information, make connections, and participate in intervention programmes, is receiving increased attention. Global studies indicate that online parenting is beneficial for children's cognitive, emotional, and behavioural development, as well as for parent-child interactions. Despite this, there remains a research gap in portraying ICT use among parents of children aged 3 to 6 during and after the pandemic epidemic. Four databases were searched to identify six original research publications published between 2020 and 2022 (ProQuest Centra, Elsevier Science Direct Journals, PsycINFO and ERIC). The three major forms of ICT use in parenting were identified: information-centric, communication-centric, and intervention-centric. All three types of activities are beneficial to parental activities, particularly in terms of reducing parental stress and increasing parental confidence during the lockdown. Given that post-pandemic parental ICT use research is still in its infancy, future research should concentrate on parenting intervention groups, including rigorous quantitative study designs with controlled groups. Guidelines and strategies should be issued to facilitate and ensure the quality of information dissemination. Furthermore, a home-school partnership that incorporates online parenting into the communication agenda is desirable.
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Xuelian Alice Chen, University College London, United Kingdom
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Conference: ACE2022
Stream: Nurturing Creativity & Innovation: New
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Chen X. (2023) Information and Communication Technologies Use of Parenting in Early Childhood in the Pandemic Era: Benefits, Risks, and Implications ISSN: 2186-5892 The Asian Conference on Education 2022: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 87-100) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2023.7
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2186-5892.2023.7
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