Parenting
The purpose of this is to protect your children and guide them so that can cope successfully with the challenges of life at each stage of their development.
What is parenting?
The purpose of this is to help your child control his or her own behavior by teaching or modeling behaviors.
What is discipline?
Benefits of good communication to this group of people are that they:
* Increase feelings of understanding and compassion towards each other
*Provide a sense of security and safety that is important to child development
* Learn to resolve conflicts more effectively and to be open and honest with each other
What are families?
This is the bond between an infant or young child and a parent or other caregiver that provides the child with a basic sense of safety and security.
What is attachment?
The difference between punishment and this is when you want to harm your child. Hint: This word begins with an "A"
What is "abuse"?
This is how two parents work together when the are raising a child.
What is co-parenting?
What is punishment?
* It lets the speaker know that you are listening.
* It prevents any misunderstanding between what the speaker is saying and the listener is hearing
* People value being heard.
What is paraphrasing?
When a parent is incarcerated, this word describes consequences like a reduction in income and / or missing the person who is not living at home anymore. Hint: this word begins with an "L"
What is loss?
This type of maltreatment can refer to not attending to the child's physical, emotional, educational, or health needs.
What is "neglect"?
These are the rights to legal and physical custody, physical access or visitation, and the right to consent to medial care and treatment.
What are parental rights?
What is natural?
This is the type of questions the active listener asks when he/she wants the speaker to move the conversations forward. This type of question should not be able to be answered in one or two words.
What is an "open-ended" question?
Answers to this question that are sometimes given to children to "protect" them from the truth are:
*That their parent is away in college
*That their parent is in the military
* He or she is in the hospital
Hint: This is a question that your child might want to ask.
What is "where are you"?
The state of Florida has one of these that require anyone who knows about, or suspects, child maltreatment to report it.
What is a "law"?
Parents must provided financial support to their children, care for and supervise their children, protect them and provide a safe living environment for them.
What are parental obligations?
This kind of consequence for misbehavior is what you (the parent) have decided will occur because the child has misbehaved. Not being able to watch television in the evening is an example of this.
What is logical?
This part of a a spoken message is sent through the tone, pitch and pacing of our voices. It is not about what you say, but how you say it.
What is paraverbal communication?
This is what children often feel when their parent is gone from their life because of incarceration.
What is "responsible"? Or What is "to blame"?
False reporting of child maltreatment is one of these. However, a call made in good faith, even it there is no abuse, is not one of these.
What is a "crime"?
This is a problem solving method that uses the "goal" as the end point, checks the reality of a situation, looks for obstacles and options around them, and converts all this into action steps, the "way forward."
What is GROW model?
Removing one of these is probably the most effective ways to discipline an older child or adolescent. Grounding a teenager is an example of this.
What is privilege?
This type of communication is part of sending a message or receiving a message, but may or may not agree with the words that are being used. It is the message that is sent through facial expressions, gestures, posture, etc. Crossing your arms across your chest or fiddling with something on your desk as you talk are examples of this type of communication.
What is non-verbal communication?
Children to do this with their incarcerated parents generally do better and feel more positively towards their parent than children who do not. However, doing this is often difficult because your child may live far away from where you are incarcerated, or the circumstances may be frightening to the child. If so, communicating with your child through letters and phone calls is epescially important.
What is "visit"?
This factor will help defend a child from the damage of maltreatment. Examples are: stable family relationships, parental employment, an adult (a relative from outside the family) who takes an interest in the child's welfare.
What is "protective"?