On the other hand, mothers of girls are more concerned about monitoring homework and after-school lessons. Particularly, how to choose and give private lessons and teaching materials. Both school and family are responsible for socialization. Family and school should support children's studies and socialization together. However, since the survey covered children from pre-school to the second grade, there was a difference in the mothers' awareness by working status as well as by the children's grade.
Mothers get information on discipline and education from a variety of sources as shown above.
Depending upon their working status, mothers get reliable information from different sources. Housewives depend more on their spouse, friends and acquaintances in the neighborhood, while full-time working mothers depend more on teachers, their own mothers and friends not in their neighborhood, partly because they do not have much time to spend with friends in the neighborhood. Part-time workers were between these two groups. Mothers formed their own information networks and learned from good friends or their elders who have experience with child rearing.