The present study has investigated mothers' view about their own child and its development. This project purpose was to identify their perception about parents-children relationship influences to the development, and their children behaviors comprehension. Mothers who were a Public Health Service user have participated of this study. They have been interviewed and the analysis of content had composed the data of this study. According to this procedure it was possible to observe that, for these mothers there are many differences between the childhood from nowadays and their childhood, and in their opinion, this period is a learning and development period. The children behaviors were evaluated as typical and atypical considering parameters such as: age, gender, and comparison to other children. These mothers had emphasized the mother-children ties as a physical and emotional support to the infant development. They also consider the childhood and the child images a structure composed by the quotidian experiences, care, education and familiar interfaces, and also by scientific knowledge.
childhood conceptions; children; childhood development; childhood; mothers; mother child relations