Browsing by Author "Laine, Heini"

Children's hobbies affect families' everyday life structure and time schedules. According to recent studies the hobby culture has changed in Finland within last decades. Children are actively taking part in different kinds of hobbies. At the same time public discussion about families' everyday life is focused on the challenges of consolidating work and family. One of the major challenges is time and its' sufficiency. Families report they experience lack of time in their everyday life. The aim of this study was to research how children's hobbies influence the everyday life. The study is based on home economics science which emphasizes the interactional and experimental features of parenting/nurturing and functioning in everyday life. The study was a qualitative case study with ethnographical scientific approach. The family studied has six family members. Both parents are working full time. All children participate supervised hobby activity weekly. The data was collected by observing family's everyday life and by interviewing all family members in December 2016. The collected data was analyzed by using Grounded Theory methodology. The main finding in the study was that hobbies have mainly positive effects on the everyday life of the family studied. According to all family members the hobbies brought positive content to children's life. Time schedules of children's hobbies affected everyday life structure but also brought challenges. Hobby culture was criticized for being binding, goal-directed or adult focused in some cases. The emerged phenomenon of the study was time – its' sufficiency or the lack of it. All family members were satisfied with everyday life as a result of the solution family had come to for time management. The parents' weekly turns in taking care of household duties were a solution for everyday life management which also enabled leisure activities during busy everyday life. The most significant result of the study involves the formula for reorganizing everyday life functions. This arrangement can be seen as a reflection of rebirth or transformation in family culture.