Parenting Styles
Which parenting style is characterized by giving excessive freedom with little to no consequences.
Permissive
What is this term: Includes the physical aspects of childcare, such as feeding, dressing, bathing, and meeting all intellectual needs of a child
Nurturance, or Nurture
Name 2 factors that influence a child
Genetics and environment
Name 2 direct costs of parenting
Food, Shelter, Daycare, Clothing, Medical Care, education, transportation...etc.
What is this term: Discipline technique that occurs when parents use or threaten to use some form of physical punishment
Power Assertion
Parenting Style in which parents desire to provide for and protect their children beyond what is in the best interest of the children.
Overparenting or Helicopter
What is this term: Includes the words and actions parents use to influence their children's behavior
Guidance
Why should a parent adjust their behavior to fit with their child?
Each child is unique and responses to things differently
Explain Galinsky's 1st stage of parenting: Image-Making
Parent imagines what the child will look like and what they will become.
What is this term: Discipline technique when parents threaten children with being unloved or some form of parent/child separation
Love Withdrawl
Describe the Authoritarian Parenting Style
Main goal is to have obedient children. No input from child.
What is this term: The use of methods and techniques to teach children self-control.
Discipline
What can parent's do to help grow a child's independence?
Allow the child to make descision and "safe" mistakes
Explain Galinsky's Parenting stage of Authority
Teaches child rules of behavior through reasoning, rewards, and punishment
What is this term: Discipline technique in which parents discipline their children by reasoning and explaining to them why they should or should not use certain behavior
Induction
Describe the Authoritative Parenting Style
Parents set rules, but allow input and some freedoms for children.
What is this term: Build a sense or "train" children to live a part of the larger social group.
Socialize
How does a parent-child relationship have a lasting impact on the child's life?
A parent/child relationship lays the foundation for all future relationships
Explain Galinsky's stage of parenting: Departure
Reevaluate themselves as parents, redefine their relationship with their child, provide guidance only when asked
Name 2 types of direct costs associated with having children.
Clothes, Food, Shelter, Daycare, Education, Etc.
What does it mean that a person may not have the Maturity to become a parent?
The person might not have the intellectual and emotional capacity of a healthy responsible adult.
What is meant by "be consistent" when it comes to parenting? Why is that important?
to be predictable: children feel safer when they can predict what will happen
Why is parenting an energy-depleting role?
Energy is needed to care for the child and themselves in all aspects of care.
Name 1 type of indirect costs associated with having children or its definition
Definition: resources parents use to meet child-related costs that could have been used to meet other goals.
Examples include: Forgone Income, Opportunities, and Time