...to interest you with my speech about parenting. Perhaps before I begin my speech, I hope you will forgive me if I just remind you about the missing of our MAS Flight MH370 which until now, nobody knew what happens to them. Few month back then, the mainstream media reported and follows the Tweet of Maira Nari, 17 years old daughter of Andrew Nari, one of the crew for that unlucky flight. “Come home fast dad, it’s the only thing I want” “Daddy, Liverpool is winning the game. Come home, so you can watch the game! You never miss watching the game. It’s your very first time” Judging from all those tweets, we can see that her daughter’s strength, emotion and loves to him, as a credits and the results him being a good and example parent, where his lost felt deep by his daughter. This is what my speech will elaborates about, what does it takes to be a good parents. Yes, you can find hundreds of websites, thousands of books, and no shortage of magazines about parenting, but if you ask few people about the most important parenting quality, you will likely end up with just as many answers. Some would say love, attention, money, wealth, food. Some would say spending quality time with them while others would say discipline. But what is it actually? Which and how these factors would make parents, good? The truth is, it is hard to say because a parent is not intrinsically bad or good; they are just a parent who makes good or bad choices. Parenting actually is an ongoing process that...
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...Single parenting ALGhaliya AL-dowaiki English Composition 2 Mr.James Philip Date :1/4/2014 Single parenting Introduction Single parenting is one of the most important issues in world. People were not except the idea of single parenting, that one of the parents has the responsibility to take care of the child. They believe that one hand cannot clap. They see that the child should live with his parents not one of them. Nowadays, single parenting become the phenomenon of the time , which mean we can find a lot of children living with one their parents could be the mother or the father. There several reasons that cause single parenting such as; death of a partner and divorce of parents. In this paper I am going deeply in single parenting, I am going to caver the definition, history, causes, advantages and disadvantages of single parenting. Definition of single parent Single parent is a parent not living with a spouse or partner, whom has most of the day-to-day responsibilities in raising the child. A single parent is usually considered the primary caregiver, meaning the parent the children have residency with the majority of the time. If the parents are separated or divorced, children live with their parent and have visitation or secondary residence with their noncustodial parent. In western society in general, following separation, a child will end up with the primary caregiver, usually the mother, and a secondary caregiver, usually the...
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...Kofi Hodge Critical Perspectives in Urban Education Professor Bristol December 10, 2013 The Parenting Gap: A comparison of parenting and academic achievement: The institution of schools does not act alone it encompasses the school itself, teachers, parents, students among other factors that work simultaneously with one another. Up until just recently, I placed much of the blame for teachers’ inability to be successful with minority students in a classroom, on the teachers' inability to communicate and relate to and with students. The students' own self-victimization and the ideology that a student of a particular race or ethnicity cannot perform well because of the stereotypes that come with that race or ethnicity also plays a role. Of the many factors, the role parents play in educational achievement is often overlooked, because many believe that the task of educating solely rests with the school and the teachers. Parental involvement in students’ education gradually decreases as early as the first grade. In addition with the implementation of test based accountability, lack of student achievement is being placed on teachers because tests don’t consider factors such as if a student “pays attention in class” or “attends school regularly” (Ravitch 2010). The decrease of parental involvement results in a decrease of parent expectations of the student and allows students to matriculate through school receiving mediocre grades and their parents never know. Seeing as though the...
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...entertainment, determined by analysis of actual market costs shall be established by the Department of Health and Human Services. The cost of domestic service providers shall include the cost of day, evening and overnight childcare, doing laundry, food preparation and clean up, chauffeuring children and any other services required when one has children. The parties may stipulate that one parent will pay the other a minimum of 90% of the per diem cost of raising the children, for any days above 183 per year, for which the non paying spouse takes physical placement of the children. Taxes and social security shall be deducted and paid for the portion of this per diem cost which is service related. All divorcing parents will be required to take a parenting class. A. What the Equal Sharing of Parental Responsibility Act will do The Equal Sharing of Parental Responsibility Act is market driven and will be effective for any parents who are concerned about their good credit rating and their standing in the community. Most divorcing parents will stipulate in their divorce decree to divide child care responsibilities equally. Parents are given the option to hire each...
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...“Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” The Chinese parenting style creates success, teaches determination, and prepares children to be exceptional. “Chinese parents” won’t accept anything but the best, while “Western parents” think learning should be fun (p.143). According to Amy Chua and her controversial article concerning Chinese and Western parenting: “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”, this first group can get away with harsh treatment and reasonably insensitive language, while Western parents may even induce legal consequences for “lightly” correcting their children. Chua firmly believes that her disciplinary actions won’t affect her child’s self-steem; in fact, she believes children’s confidence will increase upon successful completion of a challenge. Unlike the other category of parents, who worry about how failure will emotionally perturb their children, rather than attacking the actual problem, which according to Chua’s realistic perspective it is the child’s mistake for not working hard enough. “As a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child’s self-steem is to let them give up. There’s nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn’t”, says Chua (p.146). Throughout this article the author’s only purpose is to achieve her daughter’s academic excellence, disregarding her feelings of being heavily burdened. This mother’s beliefs insinuate that children owe everything to their parents (p.144), and she...
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...CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND INTRODUCTION A parent is neither a mother nor father, who nurtures, raises and take care of a child in every single way. Usually a parental figure provide physical needs for the child, protect them from harm and impart in them the cultural values and skills until they reach the legal adulthood and can provide for themselves. Technically defining, Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the activity of raising a child rather than the biological relationship. (www.wikipedia.org) Parenting usually comes in couple, a mother and a father since a child is produced by means of a male and a female who had sexual intercourse. But at this point of time there is a significant increase in number of single parents, raising a child on their own, without their respective partner. There are a lot of factors with these increase, possibly it is either personal, economic, social, etc. or combination of these aspects. Personal choice to be a single parent is one factor, some reason under this could be need to finish studying first, the child was not in the plan, it was just an accident that became a parent, not yet the proper time to get married, and a lot more. The second factor was economic; it is a lot more about financial, the expenses when they get married, they’re respective partner doesn’t have a good job, or thinking...
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...Finding Magical Answers to Parenting Parenting feels as if it should just come natural, like a new born foal knowing its mother by the first scent. However, many people who become parents for the first time realize that this knowledge does not appear with the wave of a wand. A parent must make many decisions in the course of their lifetime concerning the welfare of their children and those decisions can and will have tremendous effects on their children’s lives. Some of these decisions can be very heart-wrenching because a parent has to make a decision without knowing exactly how the decision will change their children’s life. The children may view these decisions very differently. A parent must consider how their decisions will affect the many aspects of their children’s lives in order for that child to grow and learn successfully. In the poem, I Go Back To May, 1937 by Sharon Olds, the author paints a picture through the eyes of a child. The author describes how she goes back in time to see her youthful parents about to graduate and get married. The child sees her parents as innocent, unknowing and not wanting to hurt anyone. She reflects on her past and wants to say, “Stop, don’t do it-she’s the wrong woman, he’s the wrong man, you are going to do things bad things to children” (Olds, 449). But the child does not do it, she wants to live. The child is dreams of stopping her parents from marrying; obviously, the child has felt immense pain during her childhood with her...
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...couples are interested in adopting, but religious groups are against it, and a lot of adoption agencies associated with different religious groups. Most religious groups feel as though same-sex couples should not even marry. They believe in God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, who gave them the right to judge? Same-sex couple's path to parenting is not easy. It depends on state laws and lots of money. In addition to same-sex adoption, it could help move children out of the welfare system, which would create more money for the state. Homosexual parents are more motivated and committed because they are parents by choice, not by accident. How many children are placed up for adoption by opposite sex couples? How many children are up for adoption by same-sex couples? Sexual orientation does not influence good parenting. People should understand. Just because same-sex couples raise you won't make you gay. Opposite sex couples have raised kids, and some are gay. It's not because their parents are, it is because it's their choice. A same-sex relationship can not influence a person.Same-sex couples will be able to relate to the children better because they understand bigotry and discrimination. They have seen how painful...
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...I believe that children should be raised in a stable nurturing home by either both parents, mother and father or by a single parent. I feel that if it is a loving home where each parent is taking part in raising the child it is beneficial to the child. On the other hand if both parents argue all the time than it is not beneficial for the child’s upbringing. In having just one custodial parent the child is better off because the one parent will be able to provide a better stable social environment. Few parents decide on becoming single parents other reasons why someone might become a single parent are the death of one partner, abandonment or adoption of a child by a single person out of his or her choice. An unstable home where the parents are constantly fighting and arguing will lead the parents to choose divorce. Divorce does not impact the child as negatively as when both parents choose to stay together for the sake of the children. Researchers agree that around the time their parents separate almost all children go through a period of distress. Within two to three years, most children have recovered. The great majority of children of divorce are not impaired in their development. (Skolnik) One in four children is being raised by a single parent. There are approximately 13.6 million single parents in the United States today, and those parents are responsible for raising 21.2 million children. Most single parents are employed, which is contrary to what people think that they...
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...Janet Michelle Lewis Parenting Practices April 12, 2014 PARENTING PRACTICES Parenting a child is a very important role. Parents teach a child how to behave and they provide the needs for the child. Parenting practices varies from generation to generation. In the chart below I have described parenting practices over generations in my family. | Generation 1: Years (1960-1970) | Generation 2: Years(1980-2000) | Generation 3: Years(2000-2014) | Parenting Practice 1: Education | Medium standards | Medium standards | High standards | Parenting Practice 2:Religious Involvement | High standards | High standards | High standards | Parenting Practice 3:Breastfeeding | High standards | Medium standards | Low standards | Parenting Practice 4:Extra curriculum activities | Low standards | Medium standards | Medium standards | Similarities and differences in these styles between three generations Each generation of parent practicing, expressed and viewed the importance of education among all generation of children. As a child we were made to go to school and we enjoyed going as well. Parents would express how important it was to finish high school, and afterwards go to college or get a trade. The encouragement of going to college became more intense over generations. Early on it was about completing high school. Parents seem to have an understanding and significance of institution of the church in earlier years (Cozby, 2009). Among generations, parents...
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...Misunderstood Methods: The Positive Results of Chinese-American Parenting At the age of seven, Lulu had never been to a sleepover and was not allowed to watch TV or play computer games. Instead, she was told she would exert her efforts on maintaining perfect grades and mastering the piano. Her mother supervised three hours of piano practice every day to prepare for her weekly lesson. At one point, Lulu was working on a piece called “The Little White Donkey.” The song had complicated rhythms that easily got muddled between the left and right hands. The day before a lesson, Lulu got up from the piano and declared that she gave up trying to get it right. As she rose, her mother ordered her to sit back down. When Lulu protested, her mother threatened to take her dollhouse away and donate it to Salvation Army. Lulu continued to play, but after a short time, she put up more of a fight. The practice turned into a screaming match between Lulu and her mother, with Lulu kicking and punching in resistance. The threats continued as her mother told her she would take away Christmas and Hanukkah presents, birthday parties and meals; she told Lulu that she was being lazy, cowardly, self-indulgent, and pathetic. The fight continued, but Lulu kept playing. Finally, after a night of warfare, Lulu’s hands executed the perfect rhythms. She could play the piece. That night, Lulu and her mother snuggled, hugged, and laughed in celebration of her achievement. Lulu’s mother is Amy Chua, the author...
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... 2010 Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Introduction and Background 2 Cal-SAFE Teen Parent Program Description 3 Purpose of the Evaluation 11 A Logic Model for Cal-SAFE Teen Parent Program 12 Literature Review 13 Evaluation Design and Methods 19 References 29 Appendices 30 Executive Summary This summary provides an overview of the key findings from data and feedback collected during the course of an evaluation design on ABC Unified School District Cal-SAFE Teen Parent Program at Tracy High school. The program supports the academic success of pregnant and parenting teens, increases the availability of support services for enrolled students, and provides child care and developmental services to their children. The purpose of the comprehensive evaluation is to assess recent and longer-term impacts of the program on its participants. The evaluation requires a multi-phase approach that involved a series of data collection which includes, individual surveys, interviews, program records, pretest and posttest targeted at each comparison group. The scope of the evaluation includes program records of students who receive program services for one or more years and earn a high school diploma or its equivalent. A separate survey and pre and post-test will also be administered teen parents who participated...
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...school. Whether its story time, science day, field trips, nutrition day, activity to stay fit, or a holiday my classroom door will be open to the families at all times. Family and parents of my students are a main focal point because they need to be involved in their children’s school life and know what’s going on with there child on a daily base. In this paper I will talk about and explain how I plan to involve and encourage parents’ and explain the six types of parent and family involvement. The six types of parent and family involvement are parenting knowledge and skills, communication between the home and school, volunteering at the school and in the community, supporting student learning at home, involvement in decision making and advocacy, and collaboration with the community. Parenting knowledge and skills assist families with parenting skills and setting home conditions to support children as students and also assist schools to better understand families. (Epstein, Joyce, 2002) My classroom will always be family oriented and at the beginning of the year I would sit with the families and find out information about...
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...One of the most striking changes in family structure over the last twenty years has been the increase in single-parent families. In 1970, the number of single-parent families with children under the age of 18 was 3.8 million. By 1990, the number had more than doubled to 9.7 million. For the first time in history, children are more likely to reside in a single-parent family for reasons other than the death of a parent. One in four children are born to an unmarried mother, many of whom are teenagers. Another 40 percent of children under 18 will experience parental breakup. Ninety percent of single-parent families are headed by females. Not surprisingly, single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993). Approximately 60 percent of U.S. children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families. The rate of poverty is even higher in African-American single-parent families, in which two out of every three children are poor. Effects on Children Past research has indicated that children from single-parent families are more likely to experience less healthy lives, on the average, than children from intact families. For instance, children growing up with only one parent are more likely to drop out of school, bear children out of wedlock, and have trouble keeping jobs as young adults. Other consequences include risks to psychological development, social...
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...Breanna Foster FAMR 331 04/27/2014 Discussion Questions: 4 Years My parenting style seems to adapt to Haley as she continues to grow and change; it is interactive and behavior based. Haley has excelled with her academic skills and is above average with her mathematical and language skills. I continue to challenge her with new tasks, but I also tend to focus on other things that challenge her such as self-discipline and her physical development. I believe that her motor skills, fitness, spatial relationships and cognitive abilities are very important. One aspect of parenting that I find extremely important and useful is positive reinforcement. Haley has shown that this works amazingly and she continues to expand her knowledge with every praise we give her. This seems to be very similar to the way in which my parents raised my brother and me. My parents praised us when we did something amazing and gave us “lickings” when we did things that would be considered inappropriate behavior. My parents encouraged learning both inside and outside of the classroom. One thing that I have adopted from them is the power of teaching and discipline and how the two coincide. You cannot discipline a child and not teach them the errors of their ways. You must explain yourself to them so that they understand the consequences of their actions. For this reason, my parents focused on teaching us courtesy, good behavior, and how to be a “good girl” or “good boy.” As we continued to grow, our parents...
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