Abstract:

The fact that children are healthy adults depends on their growth in a family environment with healthy relationships. Children learn a lot of skills by observing their parents and receiving help and support from them. The contribution of parents to the development of children is as great as the contribution of mothers to the development of children. In early childhood, children enjoy their parents watching themselves, giving ideas, teaching new things, playing with them, and, in short, being with their parents. In addition, the children who are with their parents during this period obtain a lot of knowledge, skills and emotional support that is necessary for their development. The father's relationship of the child is both qualitative and quantitative as different from the mother's relationship of the child. The researchers have shown that the father is important especially for the male child to gain male behaviors, and they argue that the male children learn to behave like a man by identifying themselves with their fathers. In this regard, it can be stated that the nature of the parent-child relationship has an important role in supporting the development of the child in many areas. Therefore, in this study, the aim of the study of the graduate theses on the relationship between the parents and children in the field of early childhood education in Turkey between 2008 and 2017. As a result of the analyses made; between the relevant dates, 15 master's studies on the relationship between the father and the child, 5 doctoral theses, a total of 20 postgraduate theses were conducted, the theses were adopted with the scan model, the theses were completed in 2016 and the theses were conducted in the Gazi University.