Parent-Adolescent Interaction

Up to the point after reflection 2, we continue to study about parent-preschoolers interaction as we stop at the childhood obesity. After learning about parent-preschoolers interaction, we continue learning and discussed on a topic about parent and their school aged children. Not just that, we also learn the topic on parent-adolescent interaction. After we finished our discussion about childhood obesity, we continue and start our discussion on the development of gross and fine motor skills of the preschoolers. We discussed on how preschoolers boys tend to outperform girls on confidence and improvement in movements. They also more prone to be involve with variety kinds of sports. The myelination of the brain in childhood and adolescent also …show more content…
This is one of my favorite topics, as adolescent always seems as complicated and such. Because of that, I really look forward on learning about adolescent and their relationship with their parents. We started the discussion by talking about how adolescents actually do not have that big emotional distance between parents unlike the stereotype that the society had about adolescent. I really agree with this as I think that when I was an adolescent, my relationship with my parents was getting more mature and I am getting more close with my parents especially with my mother when I reach adolescent age. Moreover, we also talk on how adolescent problems start to arise, such as bullying, delinquency, teen pregnancy, drug abuse and many more as the adolescent trying to define their identity at this point of age and also how their relationships with their parents can cause all these problems. The conflicts that arise between parents and adolescents and the role of parental attachment also have been discussed. Not just that, we learn on how parents and adolescent relationships can link to cases about adolescent overweight, eating disorders and