Contributing and Participating: Increased parenting self-efficacy after parents learn elements from LOPI

• In Event: Children’s strengths for learning and communication in LOPI, in Indigenous-heritage communities of the Americas

Abstract

Raising Helpful Toddlers (RHT) is a novel parenting training designed to support parents in accommodating toddlers’ enthusiasm to help (e.g., with household tasks), by adopting some beliefs and practices from LOPI, a learning model identified from many Indigenous families in cross-cultural and ethnographic studies. RHT was previously found to be feasible with preliminary indications of training effects. This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) included an active, attention-matched control, and tested a highly educated sample with high average income. After RHT, parents changed some beliefs and practices to include toddlers more in everyday family tasks. Further, findings corroborated a previous study indicating an increase in Parenting Self-Efficacy (PSE) after RHT. Mindful parenting, parenting stress, and depression were also tested.

Authors

• Lucretia Fairchild, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Larissa Duncan, University of Wisconsin-Madison