Intergenerational Parenting and Children’s Discipline in Working-Mother Families: A Qualitative Case Study Using Lickona’s Framework
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https://doi.org/10.17977/um065.v6.i9.2026.2Keywords:
Discipline character, Dual earner family, Intergenerational parenting, Parenting strategy, Rural familyAbstract
The increasing participation of women in the workforce in rural Indonesia has shifted childcare responsibilities to grandmothers, a reality that, if not handled carefully, can lead to intergenerational inconsistencies suppressing children's disciplinary character. This study aims to analyze the parenting strategies for developing disciplinary character in families with working parents in Pogalan District, Trenggalek Regency. A qualitative collective case study design was implemented, and the data were obtained from six working mothers through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentation. These data were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman model and triangulation of sources and methods. Five main parenting strategies were identified: (1) communication of values through daily verbal repetition; (2) efforts to habituate a strict routine schedule; (3) role modeling as social modeling; (4) strengthening emotional closeness during limited time; and (5) coordination of intergenerational values through daily evaluative communication with grandmothers. The most critical inconsistencies were in the domain of gadget use and religious obligations. In Lickona's (1991) framework, Moral Knowing had developed relatively well, but Moral Feeling was a gap in suppressing intrinsic and consistent Moral Action. The results showed an intergenerational synchronization mechanism that had never been explicitly formulated in previous literature. The effectiveness of parenting was determined by three mutually supportive factors: the quality of emotional interactions, consistency of values between caregivers, and proactive cross-generational coordinationReferences
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