Parent Interview Analysis

Parent Interview Summary
After hearing all of the answers different parents gave to the same questions gives me a pretty good idea of what a majority of parents think. What I learned from these parents is that it is ok to not know what you are doing sometimes. A talk with a friend who has a child provides helpful information as well as just doing a google search on the internet. One the other hand in this day and age it is also a lot harder to raise a child due to increasing technological changes like social media where everyone is watch. Technological changes are not the only shift that is happening over time though, but because of the change it has effected other aspects of parenting. In my group every parent said that their parent style was different from that of their parents. The main reasons behind the different parenting styles was due to the different …show more content…
Based on the parent interviews I saw, they all had three traits that make parents successful and I agree with them. First off parents have to be patient. I believe that parents cannot fly off the handle every time their child gets on their nerves, because that child is learning, and how a parent reacts to how their child acts is important. Second parents need to have balance. Finding that balance between different things in a parent’s life that might take up their time and making it equal with the time spent with their child. The final trait for a successful parent to have is just to be nurturing and to love their child unconditionally. Lastly the parents of the interviews gave advice as to what they would tell other people looking to become parents. Their main tips were to wait until people are absolutely ready to have a kid and they have to want it. I think if you aren’t read and you don’t want the child parenting is going to be a lot more