Exploring parental perception on the importance of quality time in shaping children's wellbeing

Abstract

For the purpose of examining more about the aspect of how parents in Bangladesh perceive quality time with their children and how the resulted perception positively impacts the children’s wellbeing this thesis titled; “Exploring Parental Perception on the Importance of Quality Time in Shaping the Children’s Well-being” responds to this relationship. The study reveals that parents have a focused understanding of quality time as meaningful minutes of interaction that go beyond being wherever with whom, and engaging in fun related activities like reading, playing and talking. These interactions really help in the development of proper social contacts, better facilities of thinking faculty and sound mental health. Different international studies endorse the significance of parental involvement evident in the results provided in chapter 7. Gauthier et al.(2004) refers that “parents’ time with children has significant implications to overall children’s quality of life and achievement”. The study also indicates challenges such as time helm due to work commitments and gives suggestions to parents on how they should organize themselves to have quality interactions. It means that the quantity of time spent does not matter compared to intentional and good quality time that children need for their further development.