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supports that claim by providing various examples of online composition such as blog posts, Facebook statuses, as well as Twitter tweets to describe the personal aspect of publishing online, but also represents the ability to share your creative “e-book” style writing when addressing fan fiction novels. Thompson proposes that internet writers continue to find their niches and collaborate…

Parenting Style and Development of Psychological Flexibility Problem Changes to parenting style greatly affect a child’s psychological flexibility throughout the course of their development. In order to become healthy and proactive citizens, children need to develop skills that aid them in achieving their goals in a diverse and inconsistent environment. Psychological flexibility is a set of dynamic processes that describes a pattern of interacting with the environment. Processes include…

The Myth of Learning Styles “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.” This quote, by Ignacio Estrada, encapsulates the current American view of the learning styles theory. What learning style do you prefer to learn by? Some styles are more dominantly taught by educators than others. Is this fair? From the eyes of many, this would give some people a privilege that other people might not have based on their individual learning style. What is the truth…

type of learning style. There are four different learning styles: Visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic and multimodal. Multimodal is a combination of two or more of the learning styles. Those who are multimodal in their preferences can be more flexible about how they take in and give out information than those with a VARK profile that emphasizes a single preference. The preferred learning strategy may differ slightly from the identified strategy for the preferred learning style. For example…

three unique styles of parenting your infant. The first type of parenting style is the authoritative parenting. It is highly regarded as being beneficial and a effective parenting style for normal children. As you can identify from the description of the word, it is when the parents has marked a high expectation that they have on their children. Also, due to their high expectation on an infant, they have a great understanding as to supporting their children as well. This type of style enables to…

Differences in Parenting Style Disappearing? by Tristan Bridges and Tara Leigh Tober both identify concerted cultivation and natural growth parenting styles to be used commonly among the social classes; upper, middle, and working/poor class. The textbook and article identify the concerted cultivation parenting style to be used most by the upper and middle class, while the natural growth parenting style is used most amongst the working/poor class. The Concerted cultivation style as Andrew J.…

Instead of a permissive parenting style I will be leaning more towards an Authoritative approach with my children. I know my parents did all they could have to raise us girls, especially with a lot of the circumstances we faced and I cannot express how much I love them for it. But I refuse…

their children in a different manner. The main different types of parenting styles are authoritative, neglectful, and permissive. Authoritative parenting would be the kind of parent that uses consistent rules and discipline…

Thursamy, & Ahmad, 2015). Another reason that authoritarian parenting often does not lead to excellent academic achievement by adolescents can be linked to social adjustment problems and even mental health issues such as anxiety that might linked to this style of parenting (Pressman, Owens, Evans, & Nemon, 2014). It is suggested that, because of having unrealistic expectations placed upon them amongst other things, children might learn to fear making a mistake, and this fear can carry over into…

This year I have the honor of spending my days with 24 five year just starting their literacy journey. The undertaking is a daunting task (thankfully I have an amazing classroom teacher leading the way), the standards in place for kindergarten students are high. Finding a balance between strategies that distill a text into identifying letters and producing letter sounds, and allowing the students to find delight in a book of their own choice is imperative. I am humbled daily by their…