title: Beliefs about the role of parenting in feeding and childhood obesity among mothers of lower socioeconomic status.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine beliefs about the role of parenting in feeding and childhood obesity among mothers of lower socioeconomic status.
  
  
  METHODS
  Individual semistructured, audiotaped interview with 91 mothers of preschool-aged children (49% of mothers obese, 21% of children obese) in the midwestern United States. Participant comments were transcribed and common themes were identified using the constant comparative method and NVivo software.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mothers often described their parents' feeding style as authoritarian or neglectful, and their own current style as comparatively indulgent and better. Mothers described parents of overweight children as inept or neglectful, but they never described their own parenting as such.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Encouraging mothers to reflect on how they were fed as children, how it may influence their current parenting, and how the relationship between mothering and child obesity is complex are important nutrition education opportunities.
authors: Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5406, USA.
authors: Alison
authors: A
authors: Kalinowski
authors: Kylene
authors: K
authors: Krause
authors: Carla
authors: C
authors: Berdejo
authors: Kristina
authors: K
authors: Harrell
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Rosenblum
authors: Julie C
authors: JC
authors: Lumeng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors