Summary
CONTEMPORARY PARENTING
A Parent is Born
Some Rewards and Difficulties of Parenting: role conflict and role strain, unrealistic role expectations, decreased authority, increased responsibility, high parenting standards
Motherhood and Fatherhood: Ideal versus Realistic Roles
SOME THEORIES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Mead's Theory of the Social Self
Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory of Development
PARENTING VARIATIONS BY ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL CLASS
Parenting across Racial-Ethnic Families: spending time with children and monitoring children's activities
Parenting and Social Class: low-ses families, middle-ses families, and high-ses families
socioeconomic status (SES)- overall rank of an individual's position in society based on income, education, and occupation
PARENTING CHANGES OVER THE LIFE COURSE
Parenting Infants and Babies: the demands of infants, fatigue, stress, and co-parenting, some myths about babies
Parenting Children: daily interactions, parents' and children's inputs, is childhood too medicalized?, are children over-programmed?
Parenting Teenagers: changes in parent-child relationships, helicopter and problem parents, most teenagers fare well
Parenting in the Crowded Empty Nest: recent trends, why are adult children moving back to the nest? relationships between parents and boomerang children, parenting in later life
PARENTING IN LESBIAN AND GAY FAMILIES
Children with Lesbian and Gay Parents
Parents with Gay and Lesbian Children
PARENTING STYLES AND DISCIPLINE
authoritarian style- very demanding, rigid, and punitive
permissive style- warm and responsive but undemanding
authoritative parenting- impose rules and standards of behavior, but they are also responsive and supportive
uninvolved parenting- neither supportive nor demanding because they're indifferent
Which Parenting Style Is the Most Effective?
Discipline: verbal punishment, corporal punishment, does corporal punishment work?, what's a parent to do?
CHILD CARE ARRANGEMENTS
Absentee fathers: economic deprivation, social deprivation
Latchkey kids
Who' Minding the Kids?: Childcare patterns and characteristics, effects of child care on children and parents
CURRENT SOCIAL ISSUES AND CHILDREN'S WELL-BEING
The Impact of Electronic Media
Children at Risk
Foster Care: problems and benefits
Points of Interest
The part on the chapter focusing on punishment and spanking reminded me of what we are talking about in psychology. We have been learning about positive/negative reinforcement and positive/negative punishment along with the effectiveness of these teaching tactics. Our psychology book also goes over how to make these teaching tactics effective and the results of aggressive punishment such as a negative attitude toward the punisher.
Questions
On page 325, there is a picture of a little girl filling up her truck. My grandpa told me my mother used to sit in their backyard when she was very little and play with this pile of red bricks for hours on end. Does anyone recall any interesting activities they used to do as a child that may seem odd to look back on?
How does everyone feel about the car chip on page 332? Does it give parents too much power? Or are these parents just take precautions? Also, on page 334, an article mentions that "Some college students have simply left their GPS-enabled cell phones under their dorm room beds when they went off with friends." Is this taking it too far?
On page 334, the author brings up how adult children are moving back into their homes after being away. Are you planning on moving back home after college for awhile? Why?
Which style of parenting do you feel is most effective and why? What styles were your parents?
As far as moving home after college, I think it's something that is in the cards for a lot of students. Particularly in this economy, I plan to move home until I have a steady job and have the money to go out on my own and be completely stable. Both of my parents lived with their parents until they were married. That is not as common these days as it was when they were growing up.I don't want to live with my parents until I get married but I want to be able to move out permanently and not have to move back in again if my job isn't steady enough.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a fine line between going too far and protecting your children. You take part in protecting your child by equipping them with the sensibility and morals to do the right things in life. I've seen more children with overbearing parents rebel to extreme lengths once they're removed from their parents supervision. That's exactly why you find students deceiving their parents because they feel the need to rebel against their parents and do it in a deceitful way. They're aware that their parents are watching them and often times instead of doing normal or safer activities when out with their friends they engage in things that are much more radical and dangerous. I think a child that is given freedom will more likely choose to use it appropriately because they don't feel the need to act out in attempt to feel free. As far as moving back home into my parents house my goal is to live close but not within their house. I think it stunts a person's independence. They're more likely to depend on their parents instead of doing things for their own. They might also get into a comfortable state where they never feel the need to move out of their parents house because life will most likely be less strenous when it comes to aspects such as money, rent, bills, etc.
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