Introducing Windows and Word
COMP101-1302A-322
May 7, 2013
AIU

Introducing Windows and Word
“During adolescence, adjustments problems tend to emerge that are uncommon in younger children, such as delinquent behavior, loitering on the streets, depressive symptoms, and self-esteem problems. At the same time, adolescents begin spending much of their free time away from home, which makes it difficult for parents to guide them through these problems. This presents a challenge for parents of adolescents and makes parenting adolescents an interesting phenomenon to understand. Parenting can be seen as a unidirectional process in which parents shape children's and adolescents' behaviors, or it can be seen as an interactional process in which both parties are shaped by the other. Theoretically, the interactional view has been gaining ground since its appearance around 30 years ago ( Bell, 1979; Maccoby, 1992; Patterson, 1982; Sameroff, 1975), and ideas about transactional processes are now well developed (see Kuczynski & Parkin, 2007; Sameroff, 2010). Empirical research on parenting adolescents has been slow to catch up to this shift in thinking, but a growing number of studies are now examining reciprocal or transactional processes between parents and adolescents. Still, in the most influential and widely used paradigm for understanding parenting—parenting style—this way of thinking is not represented. On the contrary, the assumption has been that parenting style shapes adolescent behavior but is largely or wholly unaffected by it.”

Summary Parenting the right way changes children behavior and tolerance is when they grow up. Children all over the world grow up without parents or any kind of guardian. When children spend a ton of time away from home it makes it hard on the parents to guide them through problems and to help them. Adolescent behaviors can be