Parenting practices

A mother is considered to be the primary caregiver but a father also has an important role to play in the upbringing of the child. However, in an Indian household, the mother has the most important role to play and follow certain set rules while parenting, that don’t apply in any other country! Yes, believe it or not, Indian mothers go through a lot. They face various hardships while bringing up their kids. From,”Pata nahi yeh kispe gaya hai”, to,”Humne bhi bachhe paale hain”, Indian mothers…

support that parenting curriculums such as PCIT can fill a need in families that have had previous abuse offences. It has been found that PCIT can help prevent intervention from becoming necessary and helps prevent abuse and reoffending. Studies have found that the use of PCIT with high-risk child welfare populations has shown improvements in interaction patterns and in skill development. It has been found to decrease externalizing behavior in children and reduce stress and improve parenting…

For this to happen, they set up a screening guide that gathered information from callers that would report a situation. The callers would then call the families who got reported and would give them advice on healthier parenting skills. This pilot project was also done in other states like, Ohio to find results on child abuse. Thus, this issue of child abuse relates to one of the lenses; science. Child abuse is such a huge issue that ethics come into play in various ways…

My local military community was the focus of my photovoice project. As I evaluated the issues of my community, I realized that the vast majority of service members and their spouses were within the young adult period of development. Many of these young adults have young children. These young adults and children often struggle with issues and difficulties resulting from military deployments. Deployment causes disruption within the family system. These transitional shifts within the family dynamic…

mom had a mental and physical reaction to her medications, she became very lethargic in her daily routine and had very irrational moods. For a span of four to five months, I managed to get up, feed myself and my mother, go to school, go to football practice, get home around six, make dinner, do chores around the house, finish homework around two or three in the morning, and get up around six in the morning for school the next day. I believe that as the research study says,“Stressful childhood…

question since no one is born with the parental skills. However, we can learn from Diana Baumrind's Typology and put in practice using the most beneficial style. First, Diana Baumrind's Typology explains the different types of parenting that goes from being involved with the children to not be involved at all. Diana Baumrind is a clinical research focusing on ethics and parenting style. She got a degree from Hunter College in 1948 and her PhD in the University of California, Berkely in 1955.…

by so quickly, and once it is gone we can never get that back. No matter which stage your child might be in, the opportunity is there to practice and foster great communication. This is not something to be taken lightly or ignore, we have the great responsibility of instilling these skills into our children. One of the most important aspects of positive parenting is ensuring that each and every member of the family feels heard, that they are understood, and that they can express themselves…

Introduction Single Parenting is on the rise and has a negative stigma against mothers that give birth out of wedlock or raising children after a bitter divorce (Strong & Cohen, 2014, p. 510). Most mothers go into a relationship in hopes of raising their children with the father in the household. The stereotype that is said about single parenting is that they live in poverty because of lack of education, which in turn, cannot get a good paying job. Children that live in underdeveloped…

toed the line, or you faced the consequences of your choices. The consequences usually resulted in some form of corporal punishment, such as a spanking, a belt, or a switch across the bottom. Although I benefited as a child from my parent’s parenting practice, I can still remember the life changing moments when they used corporal…

Behavioral parent training apps can help parents asses their parenting style by, for example, helping them set a time-out timer. However such apps don’t teach parents the important parts of when is it an appropriate punishment, how to be consistent, how to remain calm but firm, etc. These things that are taught in behavior parent training are proven to decrease child behavior problems. Yet, such training is time-intensive making it unattractive to most families. Parents who don’t engage in these…