Parenting Critique
The purpose of this paper is to take an in-depth look at the article, Ways to Build Your Teenager’s Self-Esteem published by healthychildren.org, to verify if the article’s recommendations for building adolescent self-esteem are supported by scientific evidence. The article suggests that parents can positively influence their adolescents’ self-esteem by implementing four behaviors while interacting with their adolescent, which are, (1) be generous with praise, (2) criticize when necessary, but constructively, (3) solicit your youngster’s opinions, and (4) encourage youngsters to cultivate their talents and interests. I sought to find empirical evidence using peer reviewed publications supporting or opposing these assertions
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Finkenauer et al. studied the effects parental support have on adolescents, parental support was characterized by parents giving encouragement in the face of challenge, and found that parental support is linked with reducing problem behaviors such as delinquency, aggression, and increases self-esteem (2005). Based on these findings, the healthychildren.orgs’ claim that parents being generous with praise increases adolescent self-esteem is supported by the evidence, and has a host of additional positive implications including, decreased aggressive behavior, fewer emotional problems, and is negatively associated with depressive
The purpose of this paper is to take an in-depth look at the article, Ways to Build Your Teenager’s Self-Esteem published by healthychildren.org, to verify if the article’s recommendations for building adolescent self-esteem are supported by scientific evidence. The article suggests that parents can positively influence their adolescents’ self-esteem by implementing four behaviors while interacting with their adolescent, which are, (1) be generous with praise, (2) criticize when necessary, but constructively, (3) solicit your youngster’s opinions, and (4) encourage youngsters to cultivate their talents and interests. I sought to find empirical evidence using peer reviewed publications supporting or opposing these assertions
Be Generous with Praise …show more content…
Finkenauer et al. studied the effects parental support have on adolescents, parental support was characterized by parents giving encouragement in the face of challenge, and found that parental support is linked with reducing problem behaviors such as delinquency, aggression, and increases self-esteem (2005). Based on these findings, the healthychildren.orgs’ claim that parents being generous with praise increases adolescent self-esteem is supported by the evidence, and has a host of additional positive implications including, decreased aggressive behavior, fewer emotional problems, and is negatively associated with depressive