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  • Child and Adolescent Psychology
  • Public Health Interventions
  • Digital Sociology

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  • Parenting interventions are crucial for child mental health but struggle with reach, especially for fathers and disadvantaged families.
  • Tailoring interventions to parents' daily contexts can boost engagement and learning.
  • A gap exists in understanding common, everyday parenting challenges faced by diverse families.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify the most frequent parenting situations discussed by mothers and fathers on Reddit.
  • To inform the development of more relevant and accessible parenting support resources.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of publicly available posts from Reddit forums r/Daddit and r/Mommit.
  • Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling to identify common themes.
  • Manual text analysis to define and categorize specific parenting situations.

Main Results:

  • 45 unique parenting situations were identified across 340 (r/Daddit) and 578 (r/Mommit) posts.
  • Common themes included basic childcare (eating, sleeping, routines) and managing child emotions/behavior.
  • Discussions predominantly focused on infants and toddlers, with high consistency between mother and father forums.

Conclusions:

  • Findings provide a foundation for tailoring parenting interventions to parents' lived experiences.
  • This approach can enhance engagement and effectiveness, particularly for underserved populations.
  • Online forums offer valuable insights into practical parenting challenges.