Self-Regulation and Protagonism in Parenting. The Agency in the Respectful Parenting Model in Argentina

• Autor: Mantilla, María Jimena
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/26302
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/26302
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Respectful parenting; Agency; Childhood; Complementary feeding; Qualitative Research; Crianza; Agencia; Primera infancia; Alimentacicón complementaria; Investigación cualitativa

In this paper, I interrogate the images of childhood in the model of respectful parenting from a sociological perspective. I am interested in problematizing the notion of agency in articulation with the new social studies of childhood. To this end, I describe the main characteristics that define respectful parenting from the perspective of its followers, and I focus on the example of complementary feeding where I delve into how it produces a view of babies which enhances their agency when it comes to managing the feeding process. This paper is based on previously conducted qualitative ethnographic research about the experiences of middle-class mothers whofollow this style of parenting in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.