Chapter 12

Summary:

Chapter 12 is about raising children, promises, and the pitfalls parents go through. It discusses the roles of parenting such as A Parent Is Born, Some Rewards and Difficulties of Parenting, Motherhood: Ideal versus Realistic Roles, and Fatherhood: Ideal versus Realistic Roles. Chapter 12 then talks about three major theories of child development Mead’s Theory of the Social Self, Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory, and Erikson’s Psychosocial Theory of Development. The chapter continues with the different psychological models of child development and how they affect the outcome of the child when paired with parenting. The chapter also discussed the different parenting style within race, class, and sexuality.

Interesting/Unusual Items:

I found the chapter quite interesting I can agree with a lot of things the chapter discusses. Being a parent myself I have dealt with every aspect of this chapter. As a Social Worker I will continue to see the difference in parenting skills.

Discussion:

Raising children is a hard job but someone has to do it. As a parent who has lived the life as a teenager what do you do when your child becomes that age where they start to rebel? There is a thin line between parent and friend what is crossing that line?