Critical Review: Farrow, C. (2014). A comparison between the feeding practices of parents and grandparents. Eating Behaviors, 15, 339–342 .
In the 21st century United Kingdom there are high numbers of mothers who are involved in employment, about 65.5% in 2010 according to (Wellard 2011; Cited in Farrow, 2014), due to this 36% of grandparents in the UK care for their grandchildren. Grandparents play a vital role in their grandchildren’s life including socially, intellectually, emotional and academically. They are involved in their grandchildren’s, cooking, reading, teachers, also children who spend more time with grandparents are said to have enhanced vocabulary and also present low levels of anti-social behaviour (Rutter & Evans 2011, Buchanan …show more content…
Batsell, Brown, Ansfield & Paschall, 2002; Cited in Farrow 2014). The present study was aimed to compare the difference in feeding practices of parents and grandparents, and weather the amount of time spent with the child had an effect on their feeding practices. C. Farrow had four hypothesizes, (1) First hypothesis was that grandparents would use food for emotional regulation or as a reward and pressurize children to eat more compared to their parents. (2) Also that grandparent’s would report less on modelling, less restriction and less monitoring of child’s food intake, and allow the child to have more control. (3) More Time spent with child caring would also resemble parents feeding practices. (4) Last hypothesis was that parents would encourage energy balance and variety, and teach nutrition and also provide a healthier eating environment and encourage child’s involvement with food. The research has 100 participants, 50 parents and 50 grandparents of children between ages of 2 to 8. Parents were 49 mothers and 1 father; there were 39 grandmothers and 11 grandfathers. The parents and grandparents were recruited through nurseries, schools, and child play areas in the east …show more content…
Grandparents and feeding, however very limited and nearly no research done on parents and children, relationships between parents and children, parents feeding practices. The study was heavily focusing on grandparents, this carries on throughout the paper, and the title is “A comparison between the feeding practices of parents and grandparents”. However no comparison between parents and grandparents are to be seen. There is some background research but very limited and not detailed, the study could have included some information from other studies such as, Hubbstait, L., Kennedy, T., Page, M., Topham, G., & Harrist, A. (2008) or Faith, M. (2004) which are articles about parents and feeding practices and relationship with children. These are example two articles but there are many more which could have been used to strengthen the critiques, to back-up the title question and to make a study with more quality and
In the 21st century United Kingdom there are high numbers of mothers who are involved in employment, about 65.5% in 2010 according to (Wellard 2011; Cited in Farrow, 2014), due to this 36% of grandparents in the UK care for their grandchildren. Grandparents play a vital role in their grandchildren’s life including socially, intellectually, emotional and academically. They are involved in their grandchildren’s, cooking, reading, teachers, also children who spend more time with grandparents are said to have enhanced vocabulary and also present low levels of anti-social behaviour (Rutter & Evans 2011, Buchanan …show more content…
Batsell, Brown, Ansfield & Paschall, 2002; Cited in Farrow 2014). The present study was aimed to compare the difference in feeding practices of parents and grandparents, and weather the amount of time spent with the child had an effect on their feeding practices. C. Farrow had four hypothesizes, (1) First hypothesis was that grandparents would use food for emotional regulation or as a reward and pressurize children to eat more compared to their parents. (2) Also that grandparent’s would report less on modelling, less restriction and less monitoring of child’s food intake, and allow the child to have more control. (3) More Time spent with child caring would also resemble parents feeding practices. (4) Last hypothesis was that parents would encourage energy balance and variety, and teach nutrition and also provide a healthier eating environment and encourage child’s involvement with food. The research has 100 participants, 50 parents and 50 grandparents of children between ages of 2 to 8. Parents were 49 mothers and 1 father; there were 39 grandmothers and 11 grandfathers. The parents and grandparents were recruited through nurseries, schools, and child play areas in the east …show more content…
Grandparents and feeding, however very limited and nearly no research done on parents and children, relationships between parents and children, parents feeding practices. The study was heavily focusing on grandparents, this carries on throughout the paper, and the title is “A comparison between the feeding practices of parents and grandparents”. However no comparison between parents and grandparents are to be seen. There is some background research but very limited and not detailed, the study could have included some information from other studies such as, Hubbstait, L., Kennedy, T., Page, M., Topham, G., & Harrist, A. (2008) or Faith, M. (2004) which are articles about parents and feeding practices and relationship with children. These are example two articles but there are many more which could have been used to strengthen the critiques, to back-up the title question and to make a study with more quality and