Attachment parenting

In the episode “Girlfriends and Boyfriends”, Lindsay’s parents use an authoritative parenting style. Authoritative parenting is when the parents provide love and encouragement, yet still set boundaries for the children. Studies have proven that the authoritative parenting style allows for a positive development in children including self-determination, high self-esteem, a good work ethic, and academic competence (Kuther, 2017)…

are not involved in the lives of their children because they are too involved in there own matters. Like the other parenting styles, Ghost parents come in all different shapes and sizes; they can be CEO’s of major companies, alcohol and drug abusers, single parents working long and late hours, or people in poverty. Ghost parents are always products of serious trans-generational attachment issues; hence, they cannot attach and be available for their own children. Children of ghost parents end up…

Jason is participating in counseling though his therapeutic foster placement but lacks respect for Carol and Jeff. Carol, Jeff, and Jason would benefit from evidenced based group counseling because they are working on reunification. In addition, parenting classes to strengthen their ability to set limits and understand the relationship between the child and parent. However, Jason presents the most pressing needs due to the high-risk behaviors and his current placement in a foster family-based…

STRICT PARENTS Having strict parents is both a blessing and a curse. Of course, I appreciate how they don’t want something to happen to me, but I’m already 18 years old and I need to live my life before I regret it. I know my parent’s think what is best for me. They probably want to teach me about discipline and respect for the elders, but that’s not what I want to hear, so I get frustrated. These are the 3 reason why my parents are so strict. My parents are…

Too Much, Too Spoiled Consider these two parenting scenarios from psychologist, John Rosemond: • An 18-year-old daughter graduated from High School, and for a graduation gift her parents paid for her and her 20-year-old-boyfriend to tour France for two weeks. • A couple celebrated their son’s completion from kindergarten with cap and gown, invitations, tears of joy and an elaborate graduation party celebrated overseas in Windsor, England, at the largest of the six worldwide LEGOLAND parks.…

Lareau begins by critiquing work done by Kingston, in which the idea is that family life is too complex and cannot be reduced to meaningful patterns. Kingston also believes that class does not distinguish parenting style. Annette Lareau contests Kingston’s views arguing that social class does have an effect on the way parents raise their children. She also seeks to conceptualize the mechanisms of social advantages. She uses the term “conceptual umbrellas” to…

Raising Glass Children Children and by extension all people are glass, glass absorbs the fingerprints of those who hold it and the scratches of those who are careless. The idea that raising a child properly via simple adherence to a child raising doctrine is absurd. Mitch Albom, in “The Five "People You Meet In Heaven” laments that parents can “smudge” “crack” and even “shatter” the “pristine glass” that symbolizes youth and teenagers, what Albom fails to recognize is that it is not only…

Daily habits That help Promote Great Parenting There nothing as perfect parenting. Every parent will tell you that parenting is a tough job and I know most of us will agree that it is tougher than we ever thought it would be. This is the reason why we sometimes want some advice to reinforce what we are doing as well as pick up some additional skills to improve on parenting. Like any other job, good parenting takes practice and parenting skills can be learned overtime. Some of them are daily…

Over the past twenty-five years obesity rates in America have risen at an alarming rate. According to stateofobesity.org, obesity continues to be one of the biggest threats to the country’s health. Because of this many people have come up with particular strategies to help reduce these statistics in the future. Understanding and accepting the fact that obesity is rising and huge threat to our lives is important because it allows the greater community and future generations become aware of how…

parents is “Are we raising our children right?” This question is addressed in Amy Chua’s book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, asserts that the best parenting technique is that which the Chinese use, and that the parenting in the United States, the “Western” parenting technique, is horribly ineffectual. For children to shine they must succeed and for them to succeed they must submit to their parents who know best. This is the essential argument…