Basic Survey on Child Rearing in Japan I
- 1: I. Survey Outline / II. Topics - PICKUP DATA 1
- 2: II. Topics - PICKUP DATA 2, 3, 4 (This article)
- 3: II. Topics - PICKUP DATA 5, 6, 7
- 4: II. Topics - PICKUP DATA 8, 9, 10
- 5: II. Topics - PICKUP DATA 11, 12, 13
PICKUP DATA 3 Both school and family are responsible for socialization. Children learn daily habits at home, while school and home are both responsible for academic learning, daily habits, and manners (Table 3). Table 3 Pattern A
Pattern B
Family and school should support children's studies and socialization together. As shown in Pattern B, both parents and teachers should motivate children to study and give them incentives that stimulate the child's potential; teach them about relationships with others including friends; and instill a sense of ethics. However, since the survey covered children from pre-school to the second grade, there was a difference in the mothers' awareness by working status as well as by the children's grade. |
PICKUP DATA 4 Friends and teachers provide information. Housewives depend more on friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood; while full-time working mothers depend on teachers. Mothers rely on friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood, their own mothers, spouses and teachers for information (Table 4). Table4
Depending upon their working status, mothers get reliable information from different sources. Housewives depend more on their spouse, friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood, while full-time working mothers depend more on teachers, their own mothers and friends not in their neighborhood, partly because they do not have much time to spend with friends in the neighborhood. Part-time workers were between these two groups. Role models and relationship to information source As role models, mothers cited (1) their own mothers, (2) friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood, and (3) mothers of their children's friends. Except for spouses, mothers-in-law and teachers, they get most information from people whom they see as role models. Mothers formed their own information networks and learned from good friends or their elders who have experience with child rearing. |