Parenting practices

Being a parent in the twenty-first century is very different from parenting in the 1950s. There are many more rules and theories on which to guess from and live by when dealing with children. Several theorists like Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow argue that what we interpret from human experience is directly related to our upbringing and closeness with parents. Punishment whether positive or negative can influence a child’s behavior in dramatic fashion. In many respects and…

It is another sign of growing up when your child loses their first tooth. Children normally start to lose their baby teeth from the age six, and the process of growing in all their permanent teeth will continue until they get their wisdom teeth between 17 and 21. There are a number of things you can do to help prepare your child for the loss of their teeth, but one thing you must be very careful not to do is pull out the tooth before it is ready. Here's how to get ready for the first visit from…

A Family Partnership Meetings (FPM) are collaborative efforts in the permanency planning process between the family, foster youth (when appropriate), family's supports, foster care worker, and other professionals (Family Partnership Meetings, 2013; Kim, Pierce, Jaggers, Imburgia, & Hall, 2016). Studies about FPM as an engagement tool in the foster care system indicates that engagement is a critical component to achieving permanency for foster children (Crampton, Usher, Wildfire, Webster, &…

Today, nontraditional families are frowned upon, because they are said that they do not offer the stability for children, nurturing them in the community of successful relationships from which they can model their lives. Traditional families are said to offer the ever-ambiguous “family values” as opposed to nontraditional families, this is something that varies case by case. Nontraditional families allow children to view the world with grey areas and not just in the black and white. Although…

separate, children are not able to live with both parents at the same time any longer. Children must split their time between parents either through joint custody or through a visitation schedule. In situations where the parents can agree on a parenting plan that includes a mutual custody and visitation arrangement, the children benefit. However, this is not always the case. In some cases, parents battle for custody. When parents are in a heated custody battle because they cannot agree between…

Even though adoption is acquiring prevalence and many individuals’ holds adoption in “high regard” the stigma encompassing adoption is still manifested. Adopted individuals have acknowledged that adoption is regarded as a “second best” option to having biological children (Brodzinsky, 2011) and views of social stigma around adoption have urged them to search for their birth parents or explore their biological roots in order to be identified as more socially acceptable (Baden & Wiley, 2007).…

Primary socialisation is the initial socialisation, is when a child learns to interact, behave, and talk in society through family members. This is also when we learn and accept a set of values and norms that are influenced by our parents. We also acquire a sense of who we are and where we belong. Throughout the time spent with Jacks mother she didn’t teach him the correct values and norms as she struggled to cope by herself due to his serve condition that he was unable to communicated in…

1. A blended family is one that is formed after a single parent remarries or when a family adopts or fosters a child. The blended family system is one that brings together children who have different families of origins and/or adults who remarried or had children from previous marriages. Remarriage is not uncommon for families that the adults had a divorce. With blended families when children are involved the new family system is made instantaneously without the benefit of adding new members.…

The definition of a good parent may vary from person to person, due to past history and experiences. A person’s history could also affect a person’s parenting style. For example, if someone was raised in a home without love and security, as a parent, they may also raise their children in an environment lacking those things because that is how they grew up and they may be ignorant as to how to better raise their children. There are many significant characteristics that most people would use to…

Parenting has always been an issue since the brick of dawn and recently been recognized as a problem for our society: remarkably people have finally decided to try to do something about it. In the Glass Castle, Rex and Rose Mary Walls went through many struggles raising their children but ultimately the struggles made the children stronger individuals; despite the alcoholism, sickness, and domestic abuse. Jeanette and her siblings have been through many hardships as they grew up, living with…