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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2021

“Neither too early, nor too late”

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When exactly children should start toilet training? Can wearing diapers make it slower? How can parents be both involved and do not rush the child to grow up? As Zelizer shows (1985), the child's social status becomes less inferior in Western societies, so the parent-child relationships are supposed to be more egalitarian avoiding authoritarian nurturing (Elias 2010). However, the emphasis on the child's "autonomy" do not withdraw the parental responsibilities, which maintains the old tension between child’s freedom and parental domination, creating in addition some conflicts concerning mother’s “guiltiness”. The communication proposes to study the educational challenges of coping with plural and contradictory standards of timing through the example of toilet training in three different national contexts. Indeed, the advice for parents coming from different sources are often contradictory and the manner of coping with them seems to depend on the social and economic resources of families. The historical, cultural and institutional contexts have also an impact on the choices that parents make.

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Sociologie
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hal-04031623 , version 1 (16-03-2023)

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Victoria Chantseva. “Neither too early, nor too late”: Time management of toilet training. Childhood and Time. IX Conference on Childhood Studies, Tampere University, May 2021, Tampere, Finland. ⟨hal-04031623⟩
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