Parenting Myths and Realities
Good parenting comes naturally?
Myth
Start of a new stage
Learn to deal with new issues
Learn about commitment and setting goals, communication and cooperation
Stage 2: Marriage
This has fulfillment and reaching potential.
What is self-actualization?
Failure to meet a child’s basic physical and/or emotional needs
Neglect
the parents to which a child is born
Biological
Having a baby changes your life....forever!!!
Reality
Can be challenging!
Key components: communication, problem-solving, decision-making
Child’s health and development depend on parents to provide safe and loving environment
Stage 4: Parenting
This has self-respect, self-esteem, achievement, confidence, and appreciation.
What are esteem needs?
Besides providing food, clothing, and shelter, parents are legally responsible to provide ____________ and ______________
education and medical care
an adult who temporarily accepts responsibility and provides care for a child who would otherwise not have a safe, secure home
Foster Parents
Having children doesn't cost much?
Myth
Adjusting to new roles as parents
Meet child’s needs while continuing to nurture their relationship
Learn to deal with joy (and stress!) of baby
Stage 3: Childbearing
These have love, affection, and belonging.
What are social needs?
Financial responsibilities of parents besides those that directly affect the child (examples food, clothing, shelter).
These examples are in your notes.
include damage to property or injury of a person caused by their child
persons who accept legal responsibility for children who were not born to them, raising them as their own
Adoptive
Children can make up for whatever is missing from a troubled relationship.
Myth
Begins when first child leaves the parents’ home and ends when the last child leaves
College
Work
Marriage
Stage 5: Launching
These have freedom from danger and sense of security.
What are safety needs?
When a child's parents have died or are unable to provide care, the court will appoint this person to take legal responsibility for the child.
What is a guardian?
a parent gained when one of a child’s original parents remarries
Step-Parent
Children affect parents' lives permanently. Once you are a parent, you are always a parent.
Reality
Parents adjust to their empty nest, or home without children
Renew their own relationships
Build careers
Develop new interests
Care for their own aging parents
Stage 6: Middle Years
These have air, food, water, sleep, and health.
What are physiological needs?
If parents neglect their duties, a judge may issue an order for this.
What is the termination of parental rights?
Family consisting of a couple and their children from this and all previous relationships.
Blended Family