Healthy and unhealthy behaviors can be associated with many things, whether it may be weight, marriage, parenting, and the many other criteria that it relates to. While healthy behavior may be good for you, unhealthy behaviors are not and are typically the hardest habits to break. Therefore, you aim to identify these factors that cause you to sustain these unhealthy behaviors in your life. Considering this, in this essay I will be distinguishing between unhealthy and healthy behavior, from “The Seven Worst Things that Parents Do”, written by John and Linda Friel. In this book, Friels identify seven points that they considered to be as unacceptable behaviors. In the first statement, “Baby your child—no pressure, no expectations;
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A healthy was is to accept that you are that child’s parent and it is your duty to teach then right from wrong and to not always be their “yes man” and give into what they want. You as the parent is responsible for cultivating that prime potential of good in your child. The sixth point was, “Fail to give your child structure—no guidelines, no rules; the alternative is to provide external structure and actively help the child learn self-control strategies”. It is unhealthy and opposite of community expectation to raise your child with no structure, because it will ultimately leave you child on the wrong path of society. Kids needs rules to prepare them for the real world, give them a sense of order, keep them safe, all the while enabling their self-confidence. Therefore, to provide external structure and actively help the child learn self-control strategies, is a healthy behavioral practice. Lastly, “Expect your child to fulfill your dreams—push for your career choice”, notably unhealthy. In the few of the fact, that I was almost the victim of fulfilling my mom’s dream and not my own. Until I realized that it not right and I should be happy with the career I choose, because it is the thing that I will be doing for the rest of my
A healthy was is to accept that you are that child’s parent and it is your duty to teach then right from wrong and to not always be their “yes man” and give into what they want. You as the parent is responsible for cultivating that prime potential of good in your child. The sixth point was, “Fail to give your child structure—no guidelines, no rules; the alternative is to provide external structure and actively help the child learn self-control strategies”. It is unhealthy and opposite of community expectation to raise your child with no structure, because it will ultimately leave you child on the wrong path of society. Kids needs rules to prepare them for the real world, give them a sense of order, keep them safe, all the while enabling their self-confidence. Therefore, to provide external structure and actively help the child learn self-control strategies, is a healthy behavioral practice. Lastly, “Expect your child to fulfill your dreams—push for your career choice”, notably unhealthy. In the few of the fact, that I was almost the victim of fulfilling my mom’s dream and not my own. Until I realized that it not right and I should be happy with the career I choose, because it is the thing that I will be doing for the rest of my