Since double-income families became common in Korea society, it has been required to develop effective parental education program which reflects different features of double-income families. This research aims at developing a manual for a parental education programs which can be used for workplace nursery facilities.
The process of developing parental education programs proceeded as follow: setting the purpose and direction of parental education programs, forming a team of research, conducting literature review, developing programs, applying examples and analyzing effectiveness of programs. The program contents includes frameworks, activity manuals, detailed programs for parents who are going through pre-parental period, prenatal period, infancy, childhood. Each program offers parents’ roles and parenting knowledge. Activity manuals offer detailed information about each activity and CD(lecture material, educational news letter). These parental education programs also had been examined for three months as test operation in order to verify the effectiveness of programs(parents efficacy, communication between parents and children, parents’ self-esteem). This research team had conducted pre-test, post-test with 365 double-income couples. After test operation, the team verified programs effectiveness statistically and the results were statistically significant.
The expected effect of this parental education programs are as follow:
First, this parental education programs help parents regain confidence of educating children and keep a balance between their work and family.
Second, this parental education programs also improves parents efficacy, quality of communication between parents and children.
Third, workplace nursery facilities can support working parents with this parental education programs.
Therefore, this research expects that this parental education programs will be used in workplace nursery facilites to support double-income parents.
❏ Keywords
double-income family, parents education program, employer supported childcare center, confidence, parents efficacy, quality of communication
