Parenting Difficulties In Children

Parenting a child with a learning disability can cause a lot of stress on an individual’s life. The parent has to worry about their child and how they will succeed in society, learning about getting the proper care, and the coping mechanisms for the disability. One of the main issues that a parent deals with when having a child with a disability is learning patience. It takes a lot of persistence and time to help a child with a disability, especially since you want the best for them in life. Another main issue is the education system, and the challenges that come along with helping others to understand their child’s learning disability. Every parent wants their child to be able to go to school and get a good education however, there can be …show more content…
Depending on the severity of the disability the child may have more issues sleeping through the night even more than a newborn baby. It takes a toll on the parent, mostly the mother, because the child is unable to sleep through the night so the mother often needs to provide nighttime care. This subsequently causes mothers to have higher stress levels as well as negative effects on their mental health. There was a scientific study that was done in Chicago that tested different groups of women who slept through the night without any interruptions, mothers who were only woken up once per night more than four times a week, and the last group was women who were woken up twice or more per night more than four times a week. It was proven by the study that fifty-one percent of the women who did the survey were diagnosed with a mental health issue, forty-nine percent of the women said that their child needed constant attention throughout the night, and lastly thirty-two percent of women said that they slept through the night without interruptions from their child. However, the women who said they slept through the night reported that they slept less than one night per week without being woken. It is more likely for a mother with a disabled child to be disturbed throughout the night (Bourke-Taylor, Pallant, Law, Howie, 2013, p.777). In reality it all depends on the type of disability the child has because some are more severe, whereas some are barely noticeable at all. Certain mental disabilities demand more night assistance than day attention which is why there are a higher amount of mothers who do not sleep during the night hours Another study was done which showed that parents with children who had a disability were at a higher risk of being stressed, as well as some parents getting to the point where they become depressed. The article