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There has been a steady rise of focus being placed on wellbeing throughout Denmark, showing that overall wellbeing is declining. This paper focuses on how social acceleration and a competitive society affect both families and nurseries and how they then affect young children’s (ages 1-6) wellbeing.A critical approach is taken, and the empirical data consists of interviews with pædagogs (nursery assistants/social educators) and parents’ answers from open questions in a questionnaire.The analysis demonstrates how parents and pædagogs experience social acceleration in society and how it affects their role as parents and pædagogs. The paper considers the impact of these effects on young children's omnipresence of alienation and their wellbeing. Analysis of the qualitative data shows that pædagogs experienced an alternative “frame” under covid-19, which enabled them to set a “frame” for the children to be able to resonate and increase wellbeing amongst the children.The paper discusses how the omnipresence of alienation in adults around children can have a negative impact on the children's wellbeing and how it can affect how the children experience their own omnipresence of alienation.The paper also discusses how parents and pædagogs understand and value the term wellbeing. Understanding the term helps the adults to construct a frame to advance the children's experience of their wellbeing is also discussed.The results of this paper show that the acceleration of our society has an impact on how parents parent their young children, and how parents are stressed by the pressure to be the perfect parent within society's frame. The societal pressure of always having to move on to the next thing, and not having time to just be, affects the children's experience of the omnipresence of alienation and their wellbeing.The results of the paper also show that the daginstitution (nursery) is subject to the social acceleration in society where measurable competition and performances take priority over children's wellbeing, where wellbeing is immeasurable. |
