More than four in five parents with children younger than six do not plan to raise their children the way their parents brought them up, the results of a survey conducted by CommonWealth Education Media and Publishing showed last week.
The poll found that 81 percent of parents do not want to replicate the parenting techniques of the previous generation.
Ninety-eight percent said they are willing to play with their children and 93 percent said they respect their children’s right to determine their own future, the survey found.
Half of the respondents said they had never hit their children.
Writer Yeh Yang (葉揚) said that parents of the previous generation tended to avoid corporal punishment, spent time with their children and respected their choices “as much as possible.”
While the current generation of parents has adopted more “absolutist” views on these topics, this style of parenting can also leave them feeling that it is their fault when their children are not happy, Yeh said.
Huang Tsung-ning (黃瑽寧), a doctor at the Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Mackay Children’s Hospital, said that despite the shift away from corporal punishment, there are still challenges for parents with an “authoritarian mindset.”
If a parent’s attitude is, “I’ll spare the rod, but I still want you to do as I say,” they could be in for an even greater sense of frustration, he said.
The survey also asked parents about their children’s use of screen-based devices, and found 62 percent started using them before the age of three, and 22 percent started from the ages of three to six.
Regarding daily screen time, 57 percent of parents said they limit their children to less than 30 minutes every day, 26 percent said their kids watch 30 to 60 minutes and 17 percent said their children spend longer than an hour every day in front of a screen.
The survey was conducted online from March 15 to 31 and collected 1,934 valid responses.
About 80 percent of the respondents were female, CommonWealth said.
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