Abstract

RAMOS, Viviane Coelho Caldeira  and  ERNICA, Mauricio. “[...] Be good students to be good parents”: parenting schooling. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2025, vol.41, e96137.  Epub Apr 14, 2025. ISSN 1984-0411.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1984-0411.96137.

This article discusses parenting education, understood as an educational strategy implemented by mothers and fathers to accumulate information that allows them to make good investments in their children’s futures. The work is grounded on an empirical study that analyzed written material on parenting education published in Brazil: 20 issues of Crescer magazine, 12 parenting books, and nine Instagram profiles. The analysis points out an envisioned public composed of women, primarily white, and from higher social classes. In particular, we see that the main characteristic of this contemporary phenomenon is its intensification and organization within a school form that places parents in the role of learners, establishing a rational and pedagogized learning for the parenting practice. The analyzed materials establish a parenting normative discourse that intends to shape children with abilities, competencies, and knowledge valued in school, such as resilience, flexibility, and self-control.

Keywords : Parenting Education; Parenting; Family School Relationship; Educational Strategies; Middle and Higher Classes.

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