128: Investments in Family Time and Parent-Child Communication: Implications For Youth Health
- Research
- Families & Health
About the Session
Concurrent Sessions 3 - (NBCC CE Credit: #1 hr and Conference Attendance Credit: #1 hr)
128-01: The Relationship Between Weight-Talk Among Parents and Children With Child Trust
Jacqlyn L. Yourell, Jennifer Doty
128-02: An Exploration of the Frequency, Location, and Content of Parents' Health- and Weight-Focused Conversations With Their Children and Associations With Child Weight Status
Jerica M. Berge, Amanda Trofholz
128-03: Dinner With Children and Evening Human Capital Investments in Children
Jocelyn Wikle
Discussant: Daphne Hernandez
Chair: Yacqlyn L. Yourell
Summary
Weight conversations often take place during meals and can disrupt the protective effect family mealtime has for youth. As the most proximal influence on children's development, parents can significantly influence youth behavioral and health outcomes. This symposium takes a family systems perspective, with independent examinations of parent-child interactions and a presentation of sensible ways to maximize time spent between parents and children with a focus on family mealtime. Each paper serves a unique contribution in the importance of time spent together among parents and children, particularly during family mealtime, and how parents communicate with their children about weight. Together, the authors integrate perspectives to highlight the role of parents in child health outcomes serving as both a risk and protective factor for youth.
Objectives
-- Participants will learn how communication and quality time spent between parents and children, both in childhood and adolescence, can influence youth health outcomes.
-- Participants will learn about the significance of family meals with children and adolescents.
-- Participants will learn how parent conversations about weight can impact youth, particularly when such conversations take place during family mealtime.
Subject Codes: communication, parent-child relationships, physical health
Population Codes: obesity, low income, nationally-representative
Method and Approach Codes: secondary data analysis, mixed-methodology, parenting education