Chapter 1 Flashcards
Blank Slate
The idea that a newborn child’s mind is neither good nor bad but waiting to be written upon.
Child-Centered
Thinking about children from the child’s perspective or with the child’s needs in mind.
Child mortality
The death of infants and children under the age of five.
Convention on the rights of the child
A United Nations document designed to promote the rights of children around the world.
Culture
The way of life shared by members of society.
Discipline
training in order to produce a specific outcome or pattern of behavior. Often, this involves some type of punishment.
Adult-Centered
Thinking about children from the parent’s perspective or with the parent’s need in mind.
Socialization
Process involved in teaching children skills, behaviors, values, and motivations necessary for competent functioning in a culture.
Six Fundamental tasks of parenting
Bradley 2007
- Ensure safety and Sustenance
- Stimulating and instructing
- socioemotional support
- monitor/surveillance
- structure
- Social Connections
Phillipe Aries
Book (1962) Centuries of Childhood
ideas about children change over time. Childhood today did not exist during the middle ages.
Who came up with Adult Centered view of Children. Which began to change in the late 16th century
Phillip Aries
Who examined children’s portraits from different time periods.
Phillip Aries
St. Augustine
354-430 CE
Children were tainted by original sin.
-Children are born sinful like Adam and eve.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712-1778) Swiss, frenchman
Society corrupts the innocent nature of children.
Children are born innocent and amoral
John Locke
(1632-1704)
English physician and philosopher
Manual: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
revolutionary impact on childrearing practices
- advocate for children are a blank slate
- promoted hardening practices: cold baths, light clothes for cold weather, no peaches, melons, or grapes
- Vegan during first 3 years of life.
advocate for children are a blank slate
John Locke
promoted hardening practices: cold baths, light clothes for cold weather, no peaches, melons, or grapes
John Locke
Lloyd DeMause
(1975)
Researcher and writer for history of treatment of children
The further you go back in history the lower level of child care. The more likely children were to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized, and sexually abused
Who wrote about the history of mistreatment of children until more recently
Lloyd DeMause.
John Wesley
(1703-1791)
Founder of Methodist Church
Englishman
Pronounced parental discipline essential for child’s development
- Followed mother Susannah Wesley’s rules
-establish daily routines from birth
-no snacking in between meals
-girls taught to read before they taught to do housework
-morality
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- Daily routines: from birth, girls taught to read before housework
- Morality: do not beat if they confess to misbehavior
- punishment: never allow sinful act to go unpunished
- Religion and Sin: Teach to pray as when they can speak, conquer child’s will
John Wesley
Susannah Wesley
- mother of 19 only 9 survived past 2
- wrote letter to son John Wesley (1732) describing child bearing philosophy.
John Calvin
(1509-1564)
French Protestant Religious Reformer
Children are by nature sinful and parents had the role of correcting this problem.
- Total depravity Concept
- children are born into sin and that human nature (without God) is destined for depravity
children are born into sin and that human nature (without God) is destined for depravity
-children need to be reprimanded kindly so that children will cheerfully obey
John Calvin
Horace Bushnell
Congregationalist Minister in Connecticut
(1802-1876)
Children were born as formless lumps
-parents should provide good guidance
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Children were born as formless lumps
Horace Bushnell
blank slate (1700's) encouraged what parental behaviors
John Lock
reason with children rather than punish.
The sooner you treat a boy like a man the sooner he will become a man.
Influential Childcare books and Authors
- Ancient Pediatric Prescriptions
- Luther Emmett Holt (1855-1924): The care and feeding of children
- Benjamin Spock (1903-1998): The common sense book of baby and child care.
Ancient Pediatrics Prescriptions
- Good Health: warm baths diluted in wine (460-370) Hippocrates
- Excessive Hair: rub body with powder of burned dry figs (527CE)
- Soothe teeth: smooth infants gums with hare brains (325 CE)
- Crying infant: drink of quietness boiled down black poppies
Physician who wrote the book: The Care and Feeding of Children (1894)
Luther Emmett Holt
Who wrote the Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (in 1945)
50 million copies sold world wide
Benjamin Spock
Punishment
John B. Watson (1878-1958)
3 reasons spanking is bad
- occurs after misbehavior
- outlet for parental aggress
- unlikely to be used scientifically
Who is the founding father of behaviorism
John B. Watson
Who favored physical punishment over sentimentality
G. Stanley Hall
Who was the first advocate for Breast feeding
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Greek Families
viewed children as innocent, loving happy and playful.
Punishment in a nurturing.
Modern child rearing resources
- over 42,000 books
- millions of internet articles
- television: educational shows, reality shows
- print media: dozens of parenting magazines
Who stated children should have total depravity
John Calvin
-Vegan during first 3 years of life.
John Locke
Parenting research began in
1920’s
1930’s
1940’s
1920’s
Freud
Psychosexual theory
oral: birth to 12 months
anal: 12 months to 3 years
phallic: 3 to 6 years
John B. Watson
behaviorism
Brofenbrenner
Ecological Systems Theory
John Bowlby
British psychologist
Attatchment theory created its central ideas and collaborated with mary aimsworth
Attatchement Theory
Understanding how love between a parent and child develops and affects development.
Anxious Resistant Attachment
Attatchement Theory
don’t warm up or ignore return when they come back.
Attatchement Theory
Core premise
parent child Attatchment= survival and competent offspring
Secure Attached Insecurely Attached Anxious Avoidant Anxious Resistant Disorganized
Freud
Oral: Birth to 12 months
Anal: (12 months to 3 years)
Phallic: (3-6 years)