Also impacting on Ana’s development is Chris and Kat’s different parenting techniques. Kat rewards Ana with excessive gifts, such as lollies, despite Ana’s poor behaviour therefore encouraging Ana’s bad behaviour; whereas Chris punishes Ana if she misbehaves or acts disrespectfully towards other people. For example, when Ana did not greet the intake worker at the second meeting, Chris took Ana’s doll away from her to punish her. The inconsistency of parenting causes confusion for Ana as she is unsure of what is right or wrong. Due …show more content…
Chris constantly gets frustrated towards Kat because she spoils Ana too much. This results in Chris getting angry at Kat, which is shown through his body language, and is usually being witnessed by Ana. Ana learns and picks up on the aggression shown by Chris and copies it at childcare as well as towards her mother- just as she saw Chris do. Ana’s bad attitude and anger has resulted in the childcare warning that if Ana’s attitude does not improve, they will reconsider her placement at the