Family Types
Atomic Bomb or the Colonial view of a typical family.
Ie: Dad, Mom, son, daughter and a chocolate lab.
What is the Nuclear Family?
Mistakes are punished, judged and shamed.
Feelings are discouraged, family secrets are protected.
Rules are strictly enforced, No personal space or boundaries
What is a Rigid parenting style?
Keeping Our Kids Safe by teaching them to test their limits respectfully, without being angry or defiant.
What is Teaching Boundaries?
Teach a child how to express opinions in respectful manner.
What is establishing effective communication?
Shaming or blaming a child for a mistake without opportunity to understand.
What is punishment?
A one parent/guardian household.
What is a Single Family?
Parents Role Model positive, ethical behavior.
Rules and Boundaries are clear and consistent.
All feelings are respected and shared. Mistakes are viewed as a learning opportunity.
What is an Engaged Parenting Style?
A community assists in teaching manners, etiquette, morals and ethics.
What is Social Awareness?
Be clear about "no-go zone" non negotiable rules.
Be open to hearing out or discussing other rules.
What is Family Rules?
Providing appropriate consequences as well as an opportunity in understanding to why a mistake was made and how to prevent it from happening again.
What is Discipline?
When two or more families become one new family.
Ie: Divorcee/Widowed etc with kids remarries/common law with another Adult person and their children.
What is a Blended Family?
Parents are buddies, children have no set boundaries.
Parents are often absent, feelings are neglected.
No help guidance or support offered with life choices.
Parents demonstrate unethical behaviors.
What is a Laid Back parenting style?
Creating predictable routines and clear limits. Making child aware who is in charge creates sense of . and support.
What is Knowing Who's The Boss?
Communicate to comprehensive level of child.
What is Keep Instructions Brief?
Teaching a child to swim by throwing them in to river where the choices are simply swim or die.
What is John Wayne's parenting style....it is assault.
Parent or Guardian is a different race then their partner.
Ie: Kim and Kanye
What is a Bi-Racial Family?
Escorting your child too and from school in an old loud beater that vomits out black smoke, whilst slowly coming to a start so said child can make it to school in a timely fashion.
What is Uncle Buck's/ Annie Brass parenting style?
What is Solid Sense of Self?
Do not flip/flop on boundaries.
What is Be Consistent?
Listening to Nickelback on blast on a long road trip.
What is Kharma?
Parent/Guardians that are not heterosexual.
Ie: Elton John and David Furnish
What is a LGBTQ2s family?
Raise a chimp as a child or hang you children over a highrise balcony with a blanket covering their face.
What is Michael Jackson's parenting style?
Setting limits creates parameters of expected behavior which minimizes anxiety/arguments etc.
What is Reducing Conflict?
Consequences of bad behavior strengthens boundaries.
Remember, reminders are a part of learning, provide a few tries to ensure child understands.
What is Follow Through?
What is Patience?
Sending your child to the door when a religious group of any kind wanting to explain how to save your soul.
What is perfectly acceptable behavior?