Family Flashcards
Parents or teachers should discipline children
Parents know their children better than teachers.
Parents might be able to understand reasons behind bad behavior.
Conduct
Noun
The manner in which a person behaves, especially on a particular occasion or in a particular context; Behavior- Way of behaving- Performance: Parents need to be responsible for their child’s conduct at home.
Students should learn correct conduct at school.
Discipline
To keep discipline
To impose discipline
To maintain discipline
Noun
The practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience; Control- Regulation- Direction- Order: Teachers must maintain discipline in their classroom.
Technique
Noun
A way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure; Method: Teachers are qualified in different discipline techniques.
Disruption
Noun
Disturbance or problems which interrupt an event, activity, or process; Disturbance- Disordering- Disarrangement- Disarranging: If teachers do not discipline a naughty child, other children will suffer from the disruption.
Bad behavior
Misbehavior- Unruliness
Obedience
Noun
Compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another’s authority: Children were taught to show their parents obedience.
To penalize
To punish somebody
To discipline somebody
Verb
Subject to some form of punishment;
you’ll be penalized if you tap the account before age 59.
Family size: families are smaller than before
Bigger families previously
A bigger family meant more children to help and earn money.
Agricultural families relied on children as farmhands (a worker on a farm).
Many children provided security for parents in their old age in a time without social benefits.
Infant
Noun
A baby or very young child: Having more children was important because the infant mortality rate was higher.
Mortality rate
The number of people who die in a particular group during a particular period of time: Having more children was important because the infant mortality rate was higher.
Geared towards
Organized in a way that is suitable for a particular situation or purpose: Modern life is geared towards small families.
Contraception
Women have access to birth control.
Family size: families are smaller than before
Smaller families nowadays
The cost of bringing up (raising) children has risen.
Mothers often work and do not have time to take care of large families. Women have more awareness and choice these days.
Women having children later in life
Reasons
To build one’s career
To climb the career ladder
To have financial stability
Working women prefer to focus on building their career and climbing the career ladder.
Some couples prefer having financial stability before having and raising a child.
The increase in divorce can affect when a woman decides to have children.
Advances in technology, such as IVF, help older women become pregnant.
Women having children later in life
Effects
The child, as a young adult, may feel the burden of taking care of elderly parents.
The age gap is bigger between parent and child which can lead to difficulties relating to each other.
Participation
To restrict participation
Noun
The action of taking part in something; Involvement- Taking part- Engagement- Contribution: Older parents get tired more easily which can restrict their enjoyment and participation in parenthood.
Complication
Noun
A circumstance that complicates something; a difficulty. A secondary disease or condition aggravating an already existing one;
There is an increased chance of health complication with the baby.
Parenthood
Noun
The state of being a parent and the responsibilities involved; Parenting: Older parents get tired more easily which can restrict their enjoyment and participation in parenthood.
Childless marriage
For
Married couples can focus on their careers.
Children change a marriage and add too many responsibilities.
Without children, there is more freedom.
Children are a financial burden.
