3/9 Pg 504-536 Flashcards
Seven components of parenting
Nurturance, discipline, teaching, language, materials, monitoring, Manage
Nurturance
warmth and responding to their needs and changing emotions
*Without->maybe either disengaged or inappropriately intrusive
Discipline
explain the reason for punishment
Teaching
child ideally involves questioning a child carefully to find out where she is coming from cognitively
Language
adjusted to suit his age and situations; questions, expansions of child’s utterances and rich narrative structure
Materials
foster creative play, enable a child to imagine, explore and interact more fruitfully with others
Monitoring
being aware of a child’s activities throughout the day
Manage
parents manage their children’s time -> give child’s life structure and regularity
Parenting styles
ways in which parents engage in behaviors and have attitudes toward their children that create a particular parenting environment or climate
- > warmth and responsiveness
- > demands or control
Diana Baumrind
Control and warmth
*Authoraitative, authoritarian, permissive, neglectful/uninvolved
Authoritarian parents
low in warmth, high in control
- order their children around, expect compliance with no questioning or discussion
- tend to use punishment and coericon
- believed they were enforcing behavioral standards based on fundamentalist religious doctrines
Children of authoritarian parents
*more dependent, lack social competence in dealing with peers; relatively withdrawn and passive; compliant to authority figures; low self-esteem, more depressed
*Boys: more hostility
Girls: lower goals for achievement
*Little opportunities for independence, self-esteem, initiative
Permissive parents
high in warmth, low in control
- Few demands, highly tolerant of their children’s behaviors and desires; very sensitive to children’s emotions
- Same behavior is punished on one occasion and tolerated on the next
Children of permissive parents
More immature, have trouble controlling their impulses/setting limits on themselves; less likely to accept responsibility for their own actions; act less independently problem behaviors, high self-esteem, low rates of depression, better social skills
Authoritative parents
- high in both warmth and control
- “high control” is more balanced and less rigid and overbearing than that of authoritarian parents
- set guidelines, flexible, will listen to children’s concerns and needs
- positive feedback and rewards
- consistent discipline, explains reasons for punishment, requesting child make amends for transgression
- Sensitive to children’s mental states
- Encourage children’s autonomy while upholding guidelines for appropriate behavior
Children of authoritative parents
- relatively independent and self-reliant, good self-control
- Boys: socially responsible
- Girls: more independent
- Having internalized standards of self-restraint and achievement
Psychological control
attempting to regulate child’s behavior by manipulating his feelings
- More typical of authoritarian parents
- More depressive and anxious symptoms
Behavioral control
regulate child’s behavior by setting guidelines that follow the norms and values of family
- more common among authoritative parents
- fewer negative outcomes