Remote Parenting: Parents' Perspectives on Home and Preschool Collaboration

This research study explores the prospective and experience of parents on collaborating preschool with home. It also explains how parents fulfil their responsibilities at the time of pre-school admission of their child. The research process includes primary and secondary data collection methods, and the findings suggest that maintaining the partnership of preschool and parents can lead to improvement of the playschool and child. The study recommends the need to maintain the partnership of preschool and parents to improve the understanding of parents towards their child and their learning patterns.

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Remote parenting’: parents’ perspectives on, and experiences of, home and preschool
collaboration

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Contents
Introduction to the Research Study...............................................................2
Research Topic..........................................................................................2
Main Aims of the Research.......................................................................2
Research Process...........................................................................................2
Context......................................................................................................2
Participants................................................................................................2
Data Collection Method............................................................................3
Data Organised and Analysed...................................................................3
Findings.........................................................................................................3
First Choice...............................................................................................3
Second Choice...........................................................................................4
Research Ethics.............................................................................................4
Ethical Issues followed by the researcher.................................................4
Ethical Procedures Followed.....................................................................4
Research Ethics Followed.........................................................................5
Conclusions and Implications.......................................................................5

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Introduction to the Research Study
Research Topic
Pre-school and home collaboration is a difficult field to enter; this is considered as a
contradiction in the training, practice and research. The interaction between the staff and the
parents is one of the important parts of quality of early education for the students (Vuorinen
et al., 2018). This is a teamwork process as preschool administrators focus on developing
quality preschool and parents are more focused on their children’s well-being and safety. It
requires certain set of expertise and skills. The strategies that support the child’s academic
learning will be discussed which will also help to increase the talent of the child (Arthur et
al., 2017).
Main Aims of the Research
The Aim of research is to generate and explore the prospective and the experience of the
parents on collaborating preschool with home. It also explains how parents fulfil their
responsibilities at the time of pre-school admission of their child. It is basically recording and
analysing all the experience and the responsibility of the parents and practitioners regarding
the collaboration of pre-school and home (Hynes - Berry, 2011).
Research Questions to be answered
In this research, the major questions to be answered. These are:
RQ1: What are the views of the parents in remote parenting in rural and urban areas?
RQ2: How parents do the research about the pre-school for their child.
RQ3: What are the major differences in finding the pre-school by the experienced parents and
unexperienced parents for their respective child?
Research Process
Context
This research had taken place in close co-operations, in a comfortable background. This is
done, keeping in mind the view on the planning of the parents on the kind of preschool they
expect like the kinds of plans the parents have individually for the admission of their child.
This research is done with the help of Swedish National Agency of Education; they had
conducted a survey among the parents for the same. The quantitative and qualitative
approaches are used for conducting the research (Pre School Teacher.org, 2018). This is
mainly used to uncover the trends in the opinion of the data, including focus group and
interviews. Quantitative research is mainly used to generate the numerical data or the data
will be transformed into the usable statistics, including the sources such as observations and
surveys (Mac Naughton, 2005).

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Participants
The participants are from both urban and rural areas. It includes ten parents including nine
women and one man as parents who actively participate in the activities of their children in
the playschool. One of the participants is a professional parent due to their high efforts in
taking care for their child. In this, four parents are the ones whose first or second generation
is living in that particular country and two were living in that country for more than five
years. Three are from experienced independent pre-schools. One parent is from the municipal
preschool but from the organized family co-operative (Neuman, 2012).
Data Collection Method
The data is collected in two methods these are primary and secondary. In primary Data
collection method, raw data is collected. First-hand information is been used for the research.
Observation and interview methods are generally used for the research. Observation method
includes unstructured and structured observations, controlled and uncontrolled observations
and lastly non-participant, participant and the disguised observations (Research
Methodology, 2018).Controlled observation had been used in this research. In the interview
method, individual in-depth interviews are conducted of parents for 45-60 minutes. All the
interviews are audio–recorded and all the data are converted into text messages and the
questions are open-ended in there nature. The data is collected through the questions of the
interviews in which there is a detail study of the relationships and find the gaps between the
parents and children. The secondary research includes technical and trade journals, public
records, publications of the government and statistical and historical data. Historical data is
used as a secondary data for this research (Souto - Manning, 2013).
Data Organised and Analysed
During the initial approach, inductive open-ended questions are used with the help and
collaboration of the pre-school professionals. Then, theoretical sampling was used to ensure
that there all the possible cases are considered (Baggett et al., 2017). The grading was
initially done by analysing the concepts of the interview. In the next part, thoughts about the
research are generated by the coding process to study the relationships between parents and
children which also help in finding the gaps. Lastly, the process of coding was used to
compare the actual data with the historical data (unicef, 2010).
Findings
Remote parenting is not used by the parents in order to communicate and control their child.
This is also done with the motive of sharing the responsibility of the care of the child with the
child. So, they expect complete care of all the activities in the whole day. The professionals
need to observe all the activities carefully and inform that to their respective parents. They
generally adopt the practices on a regular basis and set routines in order to meet the child’s
individual needs. In the findings part, there are two subdivisions which are referred as two
choices of the parents (Rosier and McDonald, 2011).

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First Choice
Firstly, parents try to receive the information about any of the preschool from different
sources. There sources generally include friends, relatives, preschool heads and websites.
Some of the parents think that people must use all the channels they have in order to get the
information about the school. The information is also obtained by various professionals who
are there to guide the parents for the same (Mooi et al., 2018).
Second Choice
It is generally concerned with the approval and rejection of any pre-school. It is also based on
the available choices because everybody wants to choose the best preschool from all the
available options. The choice of the preschool is also affected by the distance of the
playschool for example if the playschool is at a distance so the choice of the parents will be
based on the time taken to reach the school. This can lead to increasing their expectations
from the preschool because the coordination between pre-school authorities and the parents
that will affect the child’s behaviour (ScienceDaily, 2018). From this analysis, it has been
observed that coordination between school authorities and parents plays a very big role in
shaping the future of the children. The approaches include the kind of efforts preschool and
the parents take in order to improve the quality of education of the child, the kind of
appreciation given to the children for their way of learning and the frequency of changing the
preschool.
Research Ethics
Ethical Issues followed by the researcher
These are objectivity, honesty, openness, confidentiality, discrimination and respect. This
includes honesty of the parties (Kostyrka‐Allchorne et al., 2017). This means that the parents
should be honest about the entire research because whole of the research is based on the
answers of the parents. Openness means everybody should be open to all the kinds of
conversations. This helps in maintaining the objectivity during the entire research. The ethics
includes confidentiality includes all the data of the parents should be kept as a secret and
privacy should be ensured throughout the entire research (Sonuga‐Barke, 2015).
Discrimination includes that the researcher should not discriminate between the parents on
the basis of their background. Respect is one of the universal factors. This means that the
researcher and the participants both should respect each other and each other’s opinions
(TEACH Make A Difference, 2018).
Ethical Procedures Followed
The first procedure includes clear planning and methodologies for every project should be
mentioned and analysed carefully as efficiency in planning can make the research more
valuable and useful (Fossum et al., 2018). The researcher should try to keep high standards of
confidentiality to prevent any kind of misuse of the data. Care and integral planning play a
very important role in efficient and effective research. Researcher must try to evaluate the
potential impact of the research on others this can increase the efficiency of the research and
researcher comes to know about the major impacts of the research. Freedom of expression

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should be given to researcher and the parents so that they are free to answer all the questions
and their actual opinion can be obtained (Porter, 2016).
Research Ethics Followed
Porter (2008) stated that the confidentiality of all the participants is maintained throughout
the research, this leads in maintaining privacy during the entire research. This also leads to
develop other research ethics like objectivity and respect. As the interview takes place in a
closed room and all the participants are allowed to listen other participant’s answers which
shows the objectivity during the entire research.
In opposed to this, Rosier and McDonald (2011) opined that the respect is the thing that is
considered as the universal ethics to be followed by each and every person individually and
as a group as well. All the participants are always free to interrupt the participation at any
time, it is because the structure of conducting the interview. This ensures the openness in the
entire research by the researcher and transparency within the participants.
Conclusions and Implications
This is useful in showing different levels of how the parenting can be used to practice the
early childhood education in different ways. The important point that needs to be considered
is the complex structures of the preschool and parental collaboration. The group selected for
the research is a heterogeneous group of different individuals which had efforts to achieve
and fulfil their children’s care and need in different ways. One of the major things which is
recommended is there must be a need to maintain the partnership of preschool and parents.
This can lead to improvement of the playschool and child. At the initial stage, parents are
very particular about the essential teachings of their child. This not only helps the children to
grow but can also lead to have a control over the playschool, as if the parents are very much
aware of the learning’s of their children so they will also try to keep an eye on the quality
education of their child. This will also give the parents of the new child an additional chance
to understand their child’s learning behaviour and learning patterns. It will improve the
understanding of parents towards their child and they will also learn to know their child’s
strengths and weakness.

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