...Assignment 3: Parenting Practices Over Generations You learned in your readings that parenting practices and techniques used to shape child development are influenced by many factors including culture, socioeconomic status, non-normative life events, and cohort effects. To understand cohort effects, consider that the experiences of a child growing up in the 1940s are different in many ways from a child growing up today. Read the article: Kotchick, B.A. & Forehand, R. (2002). Putting parenting in perspective: A discussion of the contextual factors that shape parenting practices. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 11(3), 255-269. http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/docview/210500919/abstract?source=fedsrch&accountid=34899 Synthesize what you learned in your readings as well as the above article to address the following: •Using the chart/table below, list at least 4 parenting practices of 3 generations. (Note: Parenting practices are not the same as parenting styles, which will be discussed later in the course). You can describe parenting practices of 3 generations of your family members, another family you interview, or general practices of generations based on research you find. For example, how did each generation address issues such as education, extracurricular activities, breastfeeding, sleeping arrangements, religious involvement, etc.? Include brief demographic information (e.g., sex, age, region of the country) Note: 3 different generations means 3 different...
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...How to improve parenting skills Do you think parenting skills will destroy a child’s life? Yes, the young generation of the day are always getting in trouble from day to day for example cybercrime, discipline problem, playing truant at shopping mall or cybercafé. Parents should have the responsibility to take care and teach their children. Parenting is very important for mental and physical development of the young generation. So, parents should be required to improve their parenting skills by spending quality time with their children, playing a vital role and are banned from smacking their children. Firstly, parents should spend more quality time with their children. According to Porpora (2012), “Oftentimes parents fail to be actively engaging with their children”. This is because their children stay with the babysitters or day-cares more to with their parents especially when their parents are at work. Considering this, parent must be involved in a schedule which includes children’s time with parents. The parents can plan the daily timetables carry out some activities with their children. For example, their parents can tell the bedtime story or can make the cookies together with their children (Hoch, 2012). Consequently, spending time with children is one of the ways to improve parenting skills. Furthermore, parents have to play a vital role in their children’s life. Parents should shape their children to avoid falling into unhealthy practices (Bernama, 2012).This is because...
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...In my report, I looked at differences and similarities between my mom, daughter, and my generations. I look at the differences in parenting practices for education, punishment, breastfeeding, and religion. In my paper, I also explain how cohort effects might have influenced the parenting practices of each generation. Then I will look at contextual factors and how they may have influenced the parenting practices of each generation. Finally, I will explain why it is important to understand contextual factors, including cohort effects, when researching the differences in parenting practices. In all three of my generations you had to go to school, if you didn’t truant officers would come to your home to check on you and parents would get into trouble if you were not sick. The difference is in my mom’s generation she used typewriters not computers, she wore uniforms, and went to a Catholic school. Her parents viewed school as being very important. In my generation school was viewed as very important. We used typewriters, computers were introduced later on. I went to a public school. In my daughter’s school, it is public school, they hand out Chromebook for them to do their homework on. For her, I view education as being very important. For punishment, my grandparent’s didn’t believe in hitting instead they made my mom sit in the corner, do an extra chore, or write sentences. In mine, even though it was legal it was barely used. I only got spanked once, but I had to write sentences...
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...Jake Piderman Parenting Generation Y through Emotional Support and Supervision The time-out has lost its place in many American mothers’ holsters. The principle of punishing undesirable behavior with time-outs and rewarding positive actions with affection and small gifts is much more rewarding to the child’s character in the long run than them believing that they should have won the talent show before they even choose a talent to display. By leaving the current self-esteem model behind and using emotional disciplinary action more than object-oriented discipline a more genuinely capable and rightfully self-confident next generation can be formed. Despite the grandiose efforts of schools and parents, the self-esteem boosting efforts have proven to be a failure because they do not make for a more capable youth, but merely a narcissistic self entitled one. Many parents today try too hard to meet...
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...Investigate similarities and differences between the generations regard to several dimensions in their parenting practices with the generations in other words, to examine the role of both sex of parent and sex of child in parenting practices. Past investigations of the family society have had a tendency to use as a beginning stage the qualities and practices of conventional rustic society, which are likewise adept to describe provincial to themselves, in any event for the original. It is regularly comprehended that pre-adulthood can be a period when youngsters endeavor to accommodate their own particular goals and needs with the wishes of their guardians. While some teenagers get past this time of time without numerous issues, others have a tendency to experience numerous negative impacts. It is conceivable that the guardian's part in the relationship may have influence in the improvement of the generations’ conduct and disposition towards others. Social values, for example, the American Samoa and Western Samoa accentuation on reliance and family concordance might impact the kind of child parenting practices these generations may decide to embrace one. Research on more helpful child parenting practices is more constrained in spite of the fact that the work that has been carried out again recommends that parents are more prone to be included and sustaining with their kids when they report having encountered the same practices from their own parents during childhood (Chen and...
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...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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...government has introduced paid paternity leave and give fathers right to work flexible or part-time. The reason why is that women have entered the labour market, and also that people becomes older and older before getting a child. The overall result is that a third of the British fathers spend more time with their children. But still a significant minority of fathers does not use paternity leave as they are permitted. (147 words) 2. After the British government introduced paid paternity leave, many British fathers spend more time with their children, which is quite remarkable. But is the paternity leave so important, and does the British government make changes in children’s childhood by letting the fathers get leave? In the article “Parenting: From Boys To Men To Fatherhood” written by Shirley Henderson, studies conducted by the National Fatherhood Initiative in Gaithersburg, Md., indicate that Black males who grow up fatherless are more likely to have problems in school, to become violent criminals and are more likely to commit suicide. These statements are completely in common with Karl Zinsmeister’s, and furthermore he points at problems which causes the family. Zinmeister is from the American Enterprise Institute and said that crisis dealing with drugs, early pregnancy and education crisis is because of broken families. While these problems are indicated Professor Charlie Lewis of Lancaster University, who has been studying...
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...Parenting Practices Over Generations By Michael Gainer PSY 260 Module 1 Assignment 3 Instructor Taomina 4 March 2014 * 0 Many different aspects in a parent’s culture can affect the way that their child is raised. While conducting the interviews, not only did the generation of parenting show similarities and differences, but also the part of the world played a tremendous role. The cohort effect that the first generation of parenting carried over through the generations of parenting. Although the same life events were not shared, the practices brought from those generations affected the most current generation. While continuing through the generations the contextual factors that played a role in parenting are more noticeable. 1 0 1 | Generation 1: 1940-1960. Raised in a small working village in Italy. The children consisted of 4 boys and 2 girls | Generation 2: 1970-1990. Raised in the United States. The family consisted of 4 girls and 1 boy | Generation 3: 2000-present. Raised in the United States. The family consisted of 2 girls and 1 boy. | Parenting Practice 1: Education | Going to school at this point in time in the area they lived was not an option. The kids instead worked on the farm with the family. | The family moved to the Untied States to give their children a better life. All...
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...What I see as the biggest challenges young adults face today A. General Purpose- The general purpose of this speech is to inform people on what I think are the biggest challenges that young adults face today. B. Specific Purpose-The specific purpose is to persuade young adults to make better choices to overcome their present (and future) challenges. C. Central idea- I think that young adults should consider their futures. I also believe that they should follow the past life examples of the generations before them and use them as a blueprint to their lives. Introduction One of the contributing challenges in a young adult’s life is the factor of employability that many face in this day and age. A. Key point #1 The lack of employability caused by criminal convictions. B. Key point #2 The lack of education. C. Key point #3 The absence of work ethics. II. Body of the Presentation A. Main Point #1-Young adults sometimes make lifestyle choices that are detrimental to their future. 1. Supporting material-Some young adults make choices to indulge in criminal activity. 2. Supporting material-A lot of young adults adopt the “Sink or swim” mindset because of a sense of urgency causing them to do so. B. Main Point #2-Many young adults believe in coasting through life without lack of responsibility, thus not achieving educational goals. 1. Supporting material-Many young adults still have their parents assisting them in this mode of...
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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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...of the day only to come back home when dinner is ready. We have agreed as a society that the risk of harm is too great to allow children to go unsupervised for long periods of time. This constant exposure to children has brought forth many novel predicaments that many adults have not experienced in the past. One of the more lighter predicaments in recent history is the quandary of corporal punishment as an effective and moral option of parenting. "Corporal punishment to discipline children has been argued for decades" by every position imaginable (Gershoff, July 2002). Due to most of the research equally distributed throughout each position I can only write from personal experiences juxtaposed research that benefits my thesis and conclude that corporal punishment is moral in most circumstances but rarely, if ever, an effective method of parenting. "Parenting" is a recent phenomenon introduced to society by researchers and psychologists whom are vague at best about their own success at parenting (Gershoff). It is evident that past generations considered children to be obligations more so than people with feelings and needs other than food and clothing. I recall reading This Side Of Paradise by F....
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...It would be gross injustice to categorize all children and youths as lacking in manners and morals, but the general trend would certainly suggest there has been a major decline among many of them. Family values have changed dramatically in the past few decades, producing a crop of undisciplined teenagers and children who lack morals and manners as a result of poor training. Good manners were once the norm with young people very much aware the older generation. Saying "please" and "thank you", giving up a seat on the bus and holding open doors were all considered normal mannerly behavior. Times have changed and we now live in a predominantly me-first society which is reflected in many young people. If good manners are taught at an early age, they will generally continue to be part of the personality of the young child all the way into adulthood. The lack of good manners observed in society in general is no doubt a reflection of the situation found within the home. Without parental example and training the area of manners, it is likely the children will sadly lack in displaying them. The same can be said of the lack of morals we find in many of today's youth. A large proportion of children have grown up with little or no respect for authority, for property, for family or even themselves. Living a life of immorality is considered normal behavior today and has produced a bumper crop of young people with venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies and a feeling of emptiness in their...
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...Chinese mother has recently received a lot of critic on her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which is described as “how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids” (p. 2, l. 4). Though most people have criticized her mother’s raising technique, Sophia Chua thanks her mother for pushing her to do that extra limit. She says her mother’s “tough love” parenting methods actually has raised her to be an independent thinker who has lived her whole life at 110 percent. Mother and writer Amy Chua has surely used strict parenting, not letting her kids attend to a sleepover or even having a playdate, making her playing violin and piano in her sparetime. Sophia Chua uses an example of how her mother and dad pushed her to learn something new in a school-assignment by not letting her interview her grandparents, which would have been the easy way out, but instead pushing her to interview a terrifying Israeli paratrooper. All in all, Amy Chua used strict child-raising technique, and though Sophia Chua admits that it was not a tea party, she is glad that she had a so-called tiger mom. In text 2, parenting guru Dr Bryan Caplan claims that children should be allowed to eat pizza and watch more television. He thinks that parents try to hard when bringing up their children, instead they should stop trying to control them, stop making...
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...It’s hard being a single dad in America An Annotated Bibliography Morin, Amanda. "Fathers Raising Daughters: The Unique Challenges of Single Fatherhood." Education.com | An Education & Child Development Site for Parents | Parenting & Educational Resource. N.p., n.d. Web. 5 May 2013. According to the U.S. Census' most recent information, there are approximately 13 million children living in single-parent households. That in itself isn't all that surprising, but here's something that is: 2.5 million of those children are being raised by single fathers. That's nearly 1 in every 40 households –over half as many as ten years ago –in which custodial fathers are raising children, many of whom are girls. So, what kinds of challenges are single fathers of daughters facing? Some issues are gender neutral. Whether they're rearing boys or girls, custodial fathers tend to have a difficult time making ends meet. Unlike single mothers, single fathers are less likely to have flexible work hours and few are receiving child support. In fact, according to Current Population Reports, a publication of the U.S. Census, a mere 30 percent of custodial dads are awarded child support, as compared to 80 percent of custodial mothers. I will use this information to talk about the facts if my topic. "Best Interests of The Child." About.com Single Parents. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 May 2013. Parents seeking child custody or visitation often hear the phrase "best interests of the child" referred to...
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...are expected out of us everyday. We learn to be better adults and citizens in an early age and in today’s children growing up in a new era of technology is one that is very difficult. No longer is it okay to discipline children by spanking, but parents and guardians have lost the courage to properly punish their children due to the fear of law officials and being sent to a penitentiary. In today’s generation of parenting when a child behaves badly, the parent usually has a sit-down conservation and explains what he or she had done wrong. This is a horrible solution because most likely it’s going to occur again. Back in the days, there was no sit down and “lets talk like adults” conservation’s with a child, but instead the punishment would be harsher and unforgettable. Parents should be more assertive when disciplining their children that are in the ages of three to ten years of age. Most parents would disagree with this statement, but the misunderstanding comes from how society has detected how one should discipline their child. It’s not social to control our household and parenting. Being a parent is a full time job with no breaks or time-offs and some single mothers and fathers have double duties. Parents have to understand that some children often misbehave and this usually comes from needy attention or at least be noticed. It’s harder for single mothers and fathers are having the toughest job in the world. "Children are going to get our attention one way or another, positive...
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