...PARENTING STYLES: EAST OR WEST? Name School Parenting Styles: East or West? Parenthood is a privilege but is also a great responsibility. Parents wish there was a manual that came along with children when they were born; however, that is not the case and parents can only do their best in different situations. How parents act in child rearing is called parenting styles, and geographically speaking there is a wide variety of styles practiced. The most controversial styles are the ones adopted by the eastern and the western cultures in the world. While eastern parents are stricter and demanding, western parents are more flexible, nurturing, and more tolerant. Amy Chua’s article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” and Hanna Rosin’s counter-article “Mother Inferior” explore three basic concepts that make the difference between Chinese and Western parental approaches: children’s self-esteem, children’s appreciation, and children’s interest. Amy Chua states that the first difference she notices between these two parenting styles is that Western parents care a lot about their children’s self-esteem and psyches, while Chinese parents don’t. She explains that Western parents worry too much about their children’s feelings; hence they are always trying to comfort them. She also points that Chinese parents, on the other hand, demand perfection through criticism, punishment, and shaming the child, because they believe with this humiliation the child will be properly motivated to...
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...Psychology – Project 2 July 17, 2011 With society becoming more modernized, so are the styles of parenting that is used. Parents use different approaches to influence them in raising their children to become well rounded adults in today’s world. This can also depend on the social and cultural demands that are felt at present. Psychologists have always been interested in how children are developed by parents and thus research has seen where children were raised in different environments can at a much later time in their lives grow up to have the same personalities, where there is also the fact of those that are raised in the same environment grow up to have different personalities. Baumrind’s four parenting styles have shown the different manner in which parents have contributed to their children development on their lives. In the Authoritarian parenting rules and regulations play a significant part in this style, parents expect their children to be focused and to follow the strict rules that are applied by the parents with little or no interference. Authoritative parenting still follows the rules and regulations part, but allows the parents to listen to their children and have a two way communication process. Permissive parenting makes little or no demands on children, punishment rarely happens; it is conducted more like a friend basis than a parent. Uninvolved parenting shows the parents non involvement in the child’s life, the child can basically do as he she pleases. The...
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...immediately after the trauma, to prevent developing long-term behavioral problems (American Bar Association, 2017). When working with children whose parent(s) are incarcerated it is important to have several approaches to this population. Focusing on providing family-centered services, support groups, community events, policy changes, volunteer programs, or even interventions at school. Case managers must conduct realistic efforts to reunite the children back with their incarcerated parent, as for any reunification case unless court obligates so. Once a parent becomes incarcerated...
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...Introduction Violence in America's society is a major problem. This problem can be traced back as far as fetal development. Is not rocket science to realize that most angry violent acts are due to a disturbed child or individual that lacked attention, love or care? Violence is not a new problem and scientists are just finding out new facts about how it starts and how it can be prevented. Violence is a social problem that increases over the years. Violence is shown in magazines and books, on television and in the media. Violence on television is a major source for aggressive or violent behavior, but Children also pick up violence from a parent or guardian at an early age. It has been psychologically proven that males are more aggressive than females. Therefore, if a child's parents are being aggressive, their actions tend to be imitated. Children are affected very much in different ways from their families. That is why the families’ role in children's life is very important. Families are the key factor in youth violence. The early developmental stages of babies is key to starting a good lifelong learning experience. This is the certain time in which their brains and behavior patterns are significantly developing. Babies need that love and sense of closeness to obtain a healthy start. Obviously mothers who smoke, drink or do drugs while pregnant can cause serious health problems. Also, when they are young most of the time these problems persist. This...
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...Chinese Parenting vs Western LueVenia D. Bailey English 161 Virginia Waratinskky 10/02/2014 . The purpose of the synthesis is the Chinese model is to determine that Chinese parenting is superior to the western method. Parenting is always a debatable topic in America. Every person has an opinion on how a child should be raised and disciplined. There is no right or wrong in how a mother takes care of her children. All of them want the best for their children. The only difference is the level of intensity in how to raise your child. An account of the controversy over Chua’s op-ed and the book from which it was drawn. Yale Law professor Amy Chua who wrote a book and an op-ed about her very strict Chinese parenting “(including attend a sleepover, watch TV or play computer games, or get any grade A)” by calling one child “garbage, rejecting an amateurish birthday card as unworthy, and driving her 7-year old to tears after she is unable, after hours of practice. (Chua, 2011 p. 258). Amy Chua let her readers know she is tough and strict Chinese parent. Amy Chua causes national controversy because her parenting is stricter than Western mother. Most Western mother doesn’t make their kids earn their self-esteem nor protect them from failure. Western parents can ask their kids to do their best. Chinese can call them lazy or tell them their classmates are getting ahead them and their kids will start to do better. Some people support her approach of Amy Chua’s promotes higher...
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...Lesesne, C. A., Lewis, K. M., White, C. P., Green, D. C., Duffy, J. L., & Wandersman, A. (2008). Promoting science-based approaches to teen pregnancy prevention: Proactively engaging the three systems of the interactive systems framework. American Journal of Community Psychology, 41(3-4), 379-92. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10464-008- 9175-y. This article is presented with Promoting science-based approaches to Teen Pregnancy prevention by using multi-site and capacity building. There are three systems that are interactive to Teen Pregnancy Prevention; Prevention Delivery, Prevention Support, Prevention Synthesis and Translation. The article also investigates factors related to these systems. This is a peer reviewed article because it is long in length and offers extensive information pertaining to the article and references. It also focused on how to support these prevention practitioners in a unique manner. This researched article was able to provide detailed information on several prevalence with a demonstrative analysis that can be very effective for practitioners to utilize. Sisson, G. (2012). Finding a way to offer something more: Reframing teen pregnancy prevention. Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 9(1), 57-69. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-011-0050-5 This source presents challenging information on inherent parenting and prevention to high risk Teens. There is a debate on prevention by abstinence or contraceptive, which one is best. The...
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...campaign for the Peace Corps; parenting is “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” The love comes from loving our children, but the tough part of parenting is harder to pinpoint. Parents today seem to be working harder than ever before toward the goal of preparing our children for happy, fulfilling adulthoods only to realize that our pursuit of their happiness is not working for them or us but is instead leading to greater overall unhappiness for both parents and children. This incongruity between parents’ goals for our children and the unhappy results no matter how hard parents try is likely indicative of a disconnect between the methods parents are using to...
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...Discipline Children? Drew Sheldon PSY101: Introduction to Psychology Instructor: Carmilla Solomon September 7, 2015 Corporal Punishment to Discipline Children? Is corporal punishment needed to discipline children? This is a very good question and one that many parents may not even think about because many parents will end up parenting the way their families have parented. But there are more and more parents asking the question, “Is there a better way to discipline my child other than physically hurting my child”. There have been many people who claim that corporal punishment is even good for children. “Corporal punishment, when used lovingly and properly, is beneficial to a child because it is in harmony with nature itself.” (Dobson, 2015) On the other side there are many people who claim that corporal punishment is not the best choice. Corporal punishment may become abuse, it can make a child more aggressive and violent, and “spanking may seem to ‘work’ at first, it loses its impact after a while.” (The American Academy of Pediatrics, 2015) According to American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry there are many different approaches to help change a child’s behavior, like positive reinforcement, time-outs, loss of privileges, and corporal punishment or otherwise known as physical punishment. Defining the words discipline, punishment, and corporal punishment is a good start for parents and then looking to see what ways of correcting behavior fall into that...
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...Running Head: AUTISM, ATTACHMENT AND PARENTING 1 Article Critique on Autism, Attachment and Parenting Jennifer L. York Liberty University AUTISM, ATTACHMENT AND PARENTING 2 Abstract This paper examines Rutgers et al.’s research article regarding autism, attachment and parenting. It is a comparison of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Mental Retardation (MR), Language Disorder (LD), and non-clinical children. This article addressed the issues of autism, attachment security, and parenting among the clinical and non-clinical groups. The author’s attachment security research was conducted using a variety of both screening questionnaires, and several parental self-report questionnaires assessing their parenting styles, parental efficacy, experiences of daily hassles, social support and psychological problems. Through the use of these questionnaires, observations by pediatric psychologists, and a follow-up at approximately four years of age, it was demonstrated that the children with ASD were rated less securely attached than both other clinical and non-clinical groups. Also, the parents of children with ASD reported a less authoritative parenting style and felt they received less social support than the parents of non-clinical children. This paper will delve deeper into their research and consider the results as it applies to the discipline. AUTISM, ATTACHMENT AND PARENTING 3 Article Critique...
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...same as Prelim 1: 50 questions, all multiple choice. Autonomy: Steinberg, chapter 9 What is autonomy? Define emotional autonomy, behavioral autonomy, and cognitive (value) autonomy. Explain how psychoanalytical theorists view the development of emotional autonomy as detachment. What is individuation and who is the theorist who proposed it? Is the healthy development of emotional autonomy related to close or distant family relations? How are different parenting styles related to the development of emotional autonomy? What are three areas in which we see changes in behavioral autonomy in adolescence? How does the development of the ability to reason logically compare to the development of impulse control in adolescents? In what areas do parents have more influence on adolescents and in what areas are peers more influential? The development of behavioral autonomy is associated with what kind of parenting? What kind of parenting is associated with adolescents’ susceptibility to antisocial peer pressure? What kind of parenting is associated with adolescents’ susceptibility to positive peer pressure? Do adolescents whose parents tend to limit their autonomy tend to be more oriented toward their peers or their family? Explain how adolescents’ values...
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...Developing a healthy child. 1. Nature versus Nurture: an ongoing debate describing the differences in child development. The prime question of this debate is whether genetic factors or environmental factors determine the development of a child. Nature or genetic factors refers to biological or hereditary genes imbedded in a child. Nature factor determines a child’s physical appearance like the eye color, hair color, height and other traits that are inherited. Nativists or a group of people who believe strongly in Nature, form an assumption that each individual is different due to his individual genetic code. Characteristics that are not observed at birth but which emerge later in life are formed due to maturation. On the contrary, environmental factors or Nurture refers to a child’s daily interactions with various people. The Nurture factor determines a child’s personality which he adapts due to his surroundings. Empiricists or people who are strong believers of Nurture, believe that a human mind at the time of birth is a blank slate or tabula rasa and is gradually formed due to environmental influences. They believe that psychological characteristics and behavioral differences that emerge through infancy and childhood are a result of learning. (Book) * A child’s reaction of a specific behavior and the influence of Nature-Nurture Anger, an emotion characterized by resentment toward someone or something you feel has deliberately done something wrong to you. Anger can...
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...1002/icd.578 Relationships among Parenting Practices, Parental Stress, Child Behaviour, and Children’s SocialCognitive Development Nicole R. Guajardoa,Ã, Gregory Snyderb and Rachel Petersenc Department of Psychology, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, V A, USA b Children’s Hospital, Omaha, NE, USA c Psychological Assessment Specialists, Pocatello, ID, USA a The present study included observational and self-report measures to examine associations among parental stress, parental behaviour, child behaviour, and children’s theory of mind and emotion understanding. Eighty-three parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children participated. Parents completed measures of parental stress, parenting (laxness, overreactivity), and child behaviour (internalizing, externalizing); children completed language, theory of mind, and emotion understanding measures. Parent–child interactions also were observed (N 5 47). Laxness and parenting stress predicted children’s theory of mind performance and parental usage of imitative gestures and vocalizations accounted for unique variance in emotion understanding. Associations also were found between child behaviour and emotion understanding. Results provide support for direct and indirect associations between parent–child interactions and early social-cognitive development. Copyright r 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Key words: parenting; theory of mind; emotion; parental stress ...
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...family is the foundation for psychosocial, cognitive, and biosocial development. An infant is completely dependent on the parent, caretaker, or surrogate. Early experiences that mold psychosocial and cognitive development are dependent on socialization within the child’s family. A newborn quickly learns to associate a mother’s smell to comfort and nourishment. A few months later, a child delights in the faces of his or her family. Gradually, the child will begin to sort through the speech stream and learn the language spoken by his or her parents. Arranz, Oliva, De Miguel, Olabarrieta, and Richards (2010) propose that the continuation of positive parental expectations, scaffolding, attachment style, attachment quality, and authoritative parenting throughout infancy and early childhood results in more advanced cognitive development. In early childhood, the child’s contextual experiences will expand to include teachers, community, playgroups, and new...
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...The two theoretical approaches that the worker will look at when working with this family is the Structural Family Therapy approach and the Social Learning/ Cognitive Family Theory approach. The worker would utilize the structural approach because this approach is used when the family is experiencing conflict. The structure of the family has been preventing them from reaching their full potential. Three of the major tenets in the structural family therapy are boundaries, alignments, and power. These major tenets are patterns and behaviors that families express and the goal of the social worker is to help the family enact new behaviors within these subsystems. A goal of this approach is to ensure that the alignment and power of the family is structured and not unbalanced with the family. Alignment is a subsystem that will need to be addressed by the worker. It is clear that Joni was closer to Nic and Laser is closer to Jules, their original birth mother. However, with Joni now gone off to college, this could cause alignment issues between Jules, Laser, and Nic. As stated at the beginning of the movie Jules and Laser were closer with each other. However, due to Jules affair, Laser is angry with her. This anger could also create laser aligning with Nic more, instead of with Jules. The worker will have to work...
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...This week we are going into chapter 7 which is Expanding Social Horizon: Socioemotional Development in middle childhood and this chapter already seems interesting with some of the topics such as parenting, how siblings relate to each other, also divorce & remarried. I was looking over sibling in the book thought it was fascinating when it mention biological, psychological, and social cultural forces help determine how well siblings get along, and it mention something about sibling with the same sex are more likely to be warm and harmonious towards each other, and I laughed because me and my sister we are the total opposite is more of hate and resentment. It also parents have a lot to do with sibling’s relationship like it mention directly and indirectly. Direct stems from parents’ treatment, and indirect stems of quality of the parent’s relationship with each other, for instant if parents get along, then siblings will have a positive relationship, and if not then siblings will have conflict between each, other, and I really don’t agree with that because I know when theirs conflict between my mom and step dad me and my sister have a dislike for my step dad, and we talk about it, and we never have conflict with each other when that is happening, is like we become closer. The book it also mention something about siblings get along better when each has a unique, well-defined relationship with parents, I kind off don’t agree with that as well, cause with me and my sister is different...
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