Effect of Maternal Education on Child Stimulations

"ABSTRACT Introduction- Achieving such positive results for children across their entire lives is unlikely unless thought¬ful attention to their circumstances begins early. Children are not able and motivated to learn on self. Informed efforts by parents and teachers to build on that desire play a valuable role in providing children the proper foundations for school and life success. Daily surroundings also have a great impact on children’s development and ultimately dictate how well they can lay those needed foun¬dations. Objective: To investigate the relationship between Maternal Education and Childhood Stimulations given to the children. Setting and Participants-100 Mothers were selected for the study who have a mothers between the age group of 22-35 years in which 50 literate mothers and 50 illiterate mothers belonging to urban and rural areas of the Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh. Methodology: The time taken from the study was one year that is July2013 to may 2014. In the present study descriptive research design was used to obtain and analyze the data. For selection of the respondents’ purposive random sampling technique was adopted. Self made questionnaire was used to investigate the relationship between maternal education and stimulations given to the children such as listen child quarries, provide proper games, and motivate the children. Statistical Analysis: SPSS 20.0 software was used for statistical processing. Show the relationship between respondent education and childhood stimulation were also calculated with the help of “t” test. Results and Discussion: The findings of t test revealed a highly significant difference between the maternal education and stimulations given to the children. Conclusion:- From the study, it can be concluded that the education of the mothers were highly effected to provide the stimulating home environment to the children because children imitate their mothers and high effect of mothers personality on development of children. Key Words: Preschoolers, Maternal Education, Early childhood Stimulations "