| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系碩士班 === 100 === The main purpose of this study is to investigate mothers’ parenting alliance experience with grandparents in stem families. Under the framework of qualitative research, this study conducts semi-structured interview, in an attempt to realize how mothers who have preschool children aged 3~6 share parenting work with grandparents, the difference between their and grandparents’ parenting, how they coordinate with grandparents, their pressure from stem family, how they feel about parental efficacy, and further explore the interaction process as well as the harmonious experience between them (mothers who have preschool children aged 3~6) and grandparents in stem families. Data collected from interviews are analyzed, systemized and concluded as follows:
1. Though this study conducts interviews with mothers who think their stem family live harmoniously, it is found that there is still a difference between their and grandparents’ parenting. The main differences are “the habit of taking care of children” and “the education of daily routines.” The way for harmonious families to adjust their parenting chiefly includes: “mutual communication and adjustment,” “do not care about details but give each other appropriate space,” “make good use of the third person as their coordinator─experts, their husbands, their children.”
2. Mode of parenting alliance in stem families is “respect one side as leading role─mutual support,” which means that the family primarily adopts parenting ideas’ of one side, while the other side plays the supporting role and respects the other’s leading, so the parenting alliance can be backed up and work positively.
3. Grandparents in stem families and in mothers’ parenting alliance are just like mothers’ helping hand; they are the main parenting helper for children’s mothers, and their assistance in taking care of children is also like a protection net.
4. When playing multiple roles in stem families, children’s mothers convert their pressure to positive momentum. Thanks to grandparents’ assistance, mothers’ parental efficacy also increases.
5. The process of parenting alliance in stem families─children’s mothers are grateful for grandparents’ help in parenting, which establishes ties of blood and builds up the bridge for exchanging affection from one generation to another. Living in a stem family provides children with a diverse learning experience, and enables each family member to enjoy family love and fun.
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