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    The Wall Street Journal published an article “Why Chinese Mothers are superior” on January 8th 2011 written by Amy Chua. Amy Chua, author, is a lawyer and currently a teacher at the Yale Law School. Chua has been working at Yale since 2011, before Yale she was teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Chua wrote this article to express herself on her parenting skills which she calls “Chinese Mother” and how other parents have a very different parenting style than hers which she calls “Western…

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    A parenting style is a psychological structure that throws light on the everyday techniques that parents use with their children. A parenting style is an amalgamation of the needs, demands, expectations and responds of the parents with respect to their children. Diana Baumrind has categorised parenting styles into four categories: Authoritarian, authoritative, disengaged and permissive. This essay will look at the characteristics and defining features of permissive parenting, and its effects on…

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    Parents have a hard job. Parents have to ensure that they raise these little people in an environment full of temptation. There are some parenting styles that parents will have to master. The styles are authoritative strict parents, the permissive that agrees and wants to be their child’s best friend and neglectful parents that forget about their children. Therefore, selecting the correct parenting style will influence your children future. An authoritative parents has been is documented as…

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    According to the article The four stages of parenting written by Kendra Cherry states that parents tend to have different styles of parenting. The styles are Permissive parenting, Authoritative, Authoritarian and uninvolved parenting. Permissive parents are more tolerant and rarely discipline, but they are also nurturing and forgiving. Authoritative and Authoritarian parents are often confused, but they are different. Authoritative parents are responsible, cooperative and supportive.…

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    Chua's Article Summary

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    Chua asserts that “perfection” is a completely acceptable standard for children because… For example, when commenting on the great lengths Chinese parents will go for parenting , Chua says, “...Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be “the best” students, that “academic achievement reflects successful parenting” and that if children did not excel at school then there was “a problem” and parents ‘were not doing their job’” (1).This suggests that the first priority of any good…

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    Many parents are hungry for healthy parenting tips and effective parenting advice. The Responsible Kids Network offers parenting tips to encourage and support authoritative parenting. I did not expect parenting to be so hard New parents may be unprepared for the exhilarating, yet exhausting, journey that lies ahead in parenting. It's important for all parents to realize that just because a person is able to procreate, doesn't naturally provide the patience and knowledge needed to be an…

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    Parenting Styles In the article, “Parenting Styles: What They Are and Why They Matter,” psychosocial specialist, Kendra Cherry, explains the correlation between parenting styles and how a child grows up. Cherry mentions research done by psychologist Diana Baumrind in which three parenting styles were established: authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive. Cherry further analyzes Baumrind’s findings and states how these parenting styles generally influence a child. This article addresses…

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    Nurture Assumption

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    This article is a book review of the Nurture Assumption written by Judith Rich Harris. Harris’s main belief in the book is that parents must share credit with the child’s own nature, and most importantly with the child’s peers. Harris’s book focuses on the importance of peers and genes. Genetics explains only approximately half of the variation in people’s personalities and abilities. Everyone acknowledges peers is important, but instead of treating it as a nuisance in children’s socialization,…

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    The Glass Castle Summary

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    According to “The Four Styles of Parenting” by Kendra Cherry, she states that permissive parents have very few demands to make of their children, are nontraditional and lenient, allow considerable self-regulation and have relatively low expectations of maturity and self-control. In “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls, she explores lots of memories about her parents and often describes their parenting styles. In my opinion, her parents perfectly align with Cherry’s assessment of Permissive…

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    Parenting a Disabled Child Parenting can be a difficult experience, regardless of the child having special needs or not. Many times parents can be tried by their child’s actions and reactions. Parenting style can greatly effect what the outcome of a child’s behavior will be (Raya, 2013). It is “understood as a constellation of attitudes in the child, of which they are informed and, together, form emotional environments in which parents’ behaviors are exposed” (Raya, 2013, p. 205). There are…

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