Parents

Parent and child relationship is one of the most important relationship that would result in the way a child will turn out lately. For parents, it their responsibility to keep the relationship strong and work and play a key role in child development. The parent and child relation consist of a combination of behaviors and values also feelings and expectation that are unique to both parent and child.it is also a set of love, guide, and give care, receive help, discipline and admit wrongdoing when…

The Digital Parent Trap: Analysis Nowadays, there are many arguments on whether technology does more harm than good to a child of an early age, we see the same argument presented in an article by Eliana Dockterman. Throughout her article, “The Digital Parent Trap,” Eliana Dockterman uses her angle of vision that tries to persuade her audience through building an argument on the benefits of early exposure to technology to children. However, due to her lack and weakening of ethos, Dockterman was…

In 2002, 797,500 children were abducted. 203,900 of those children were abducted by someone they know; their parents. In 2002, the Department of Justice had a study published about kidnappings (CNN). This piece of information shows that in just one year, almost one-third of all the kidnappings was done by parents to their children. In the book Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller, the main character, Callie Tchorvos, was kidnapped by her mother at age five. She was taken away from her…

Several complex but dominant subsystems emerge in the family, namely the spousal subsystem, biological parent-child subsystem, nonbiological stepparent-stepchild subsystem, and the parental/ex-spousal subsystem (Dupis, 2010). As biological parents of 17-year old Kae and four-year old Tao, Michelle Johnson and Naihi Henare from the parental/ex-spousal system while also in the biological parent-child subsystem with their child individually. Michelle is also in a new spousal subsystem with Justin…

The chosen article in option 5 “ Helicopter parents: An examination of the correlates of over-parenting of college students” researches and discusses the role of over-parenting and parental involvement concerning college students, especially in regards to the implications this has on their experience or potential experience in the workplace and college itself. This research was done by designing an online survey with an interval measurement, which was completed by 482 undergraduate college…

Aging parents can express anger and sometimes this is an emotion that the adult children had not seen in their earlier years but now presents with the fury of a caged animal. It can stop a loving family member in their tracks and brings about emotions in the family member of fear and concern. At other times the family is dealing with someone who has been angry all their lives and it is just something they have come to terms with – but now that needs have escalated the challenge to provide…

The Mockingbird Parents To Kill a Mockingbird has many themes and motifs, some of the most common are racism, walking in other people’s shoes, and shadows; however, parenting also plays a major role in this book. Unlike your typical family with a father and a mother, Jem and Scout only have their father. This little twist in the story allows Scout and Jem to experience more than one or two parent figures in their lives. Atticus, being a single father, cannot do everything necessary to raise…

from their parents. Parents often times do not address moral issues, which offers their children no benefit. In Robert Coles’ “I Listen to My Parents and I Wonder What They Believe,” he demonstrates children’s difficulty in processing through different moral messages. Coles emphasizes the parent’s role in assisting their children in moral education. Because children’s vulnerability too many influences, parents have the responsibility to morally educate their children, but often fail. Parents…

It used to be commonplace for multi-generational families to live together with all adults having a hands-on role in the rearing of children. In those idyllic days grandparents played a special, part-time role. Nowadays many grandparents have more involved roles and it's usually because of an unfortunate story that left no other choice. According to current surveys, 31% of adults are grandparents. 8% of those grandparents are regularly providing day care and 3% are raising a grandchild. It is…

The Parent-Child Interactions Project is to make us the writers go out and observe appropriate and inappropriate parent-child interactions. Then discuss the location, child age, which parents were there, what we observed, and why we think one parent-child interaction was appropriate and inappropriate. Next, we will discuss how the book changed our view of what we considered appropriate parenting. In addition, to our views, we have to explain how the appropriate and inappropriate interaction…