An Exploration Of Parental Encouragement And Children 's Prosocial Tendencies

10: (a) How do you promote positive relationships with parents and why is it important to establish this relationship?

In modern day psychology1 there are four types of parenting styles: authoritative, neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian. Each type holds different characteristics and brings forth different reaction unto children. While not every type of parenting style will bring identical results since the relationship of a parent and child is unique to each family, studies on these relationships reveal patterns in the development of the adolescent mortality in relation to parenting styles. In this essay, I expand upon how parenting style affects the child’s morality. Morality will be defined as the individual’s interpretation of right and wrong under their own code of ethics. The studies included in this essay measured morality based on a questionnaire

This paper has presented an argument on how a child’s development is strongly influenced by environmental and cultural influences as well as parenting styles and education. Children begin to learn and experiment with social skills at school, allowing them to learn and understand social skills necessary for later life in life. Children who receive schooling at an early age perform better later in academics. I hope that by teaching in the ways that I described will help me accomplish this. I want my classroom of students to be excited to come to my class everyday to learn something that I hope will impact them for the rest of their lives. I want my classroom to be a very caring environment. I want my students to feel important and smart and to influence them to be the best that they can be. Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from

Within the article McCready provides alternative ways for parents to motivate

The concerned parent attempts to provide all that is needed for their children to grow and developed into acceptable, productive members of society. The nurturance can sometimes become challenging and even gruesome as together, child and parents, travel through the stages of development. Kail and Cavanaugh (2010), describes two dimensions of parenting. The first dimension relates to the amount of affection and concern presented by the parent (warmth). They are genuine in displaying loving care at one end of the spectrum. They integrate

If a child’s parents don’t give them encouragement then the child can’t achieve their potential. Kids need to be motivated and reaching their potential will be easier because they believe in themselves. If the parent gives too much praise, then the motivating won’t mean anything because they think they are good enough already. People think that parents need to motivate while not giving too much. Other people may think that praise is a thing that parents should use as often as possible because they think their kids will benefit from it more greatly than giving them a certain amount of

The positive effects of adult support for children can be witnessed as children gain confidence and show an increased level of self-esteem. These positive effects are reinforced when encouraged and given praise for their achievements from teachers, parents, carers, and other adults.

Parental practices that involve consistent interaction are additional strategies employed by some. A child may be pushed to achieve specific academic, social, or athletic goals across different contexts and situations (Hart, Nelson, Robinson, Olsen, & McNeilly-Choque, 1998). A child may receive monetary gratuity designed to teach him/her to manage money. Some children thrive in other event-specific interaction—reading, attendance to sports or arts events, or giving time to school rooms and/or activities. Herein, lies factors that produce the advent of self-esteem and results may vary. Studies also reveal that observation has a responsive affect and often leads to social competence, peer acceptance, and less antisocial behavior (Hart et al.,1998). An inviting parent that elevates care and affection or one that encourages higher educational are examples of styles that promotes rather than demotes development.

Kuba (2015) mentions in her dissertation which identifies qualities of low SES families that promote school success for their students, that those parents in her study who “employed proactive techniques and utilized positive reinforcement” instead of physical discipline experienced more success with their students (p. 79).

According to Weaver, Watson, Cashwell, Hinds, and Fascio (2004) there are two major forms of praise that adults use to praise children that has the potential

The generally accepted way in which children in a society are raised, constitutes its philosophical and social child rearing practice. Child-rearing research has focused on understanding differences in parent’s beliefs and values, characteristics of cultural socialization, and the implications of such variations. “Chinese parents traditionally stress their authority over their children and expect unquestioning obedience from them” (Chiu 1987). In America, a parent’s main focus is what they should do for their children to help them succeed in life; Chinese parents raise their children to do what is best for their parents and society. Significant differences were found in Chinese,

The study’s main purpose is to further examine cross-cultural parenting styles by including socialization goals and by looking at the similarities and differences in the relationship between parenting styles, socialization goals and the child’s social-emotional adjustment levels (Li, Costanzo & Putallaz, 2010). The study hypothesized that European young adults would perceive that they’ve received more self-development individualistic socialization goals, that they were reared more in authoritative parenting style and that self-development socialization goals and authoritative parenting are more positively related to adjustment levels amongst Europeans than the authoritarian parenting style (Li, Costanzo & Putallaz, 2010). The study had 137 universities students in total as their participants, 79 Chinese students were recruited from a university in Northern China and 58 European American students were recruited from a university in the southeastern part of the United States. The study had several controls; both schools were equally rigorous in terms of their academics, all participants grew up in urban or suburban areas

The over involvement of parents can make the child develop psychological issues. They are shown to have a higher risk of depression, anxiety, lack self-confidence, and have low self-esteem (“Helicopter Parents” Stir Up Anxiety, Depression). It is shown that no matter what parenting technique is being used, every parents goal is to build their child’s self-esteem (Rutherford). Sadly, helicopter parenting does the exact opposite. Equally important, the persons lack of self- confidence comes from the over involvement of their parents in his/her childhood activities and academics. They never experienced failure or loss because the parents were always there to step in, so they never achieved anything to build their confidence (“Helicopter Parents” Stir Up Anxiety, Depression). It is common for a child with helicopter parents to develop depression when moving from their home to

Consequently, even though Amy Chau does explain how Chinese parents are more victorious in producing “successful” children with good grades, success is a subjective term. Since I view success through happiness, I disagree with Chau’s claim; I do believe parenting should include self-esteem. After all, tangible items such as a trophy do not determine a person’s self-worth. Rather, the memories and journeys define a person. And, this journey includes finding his or her own passion, individuality, and happiness. Accolades only stay with a person for so long, but self-esteem stays for eternity. Parents should never bring down their children’s self-esteem no matter what the case is. Everyone is special in their own distinct way and are destined

It is apparent throughout research parents have a high impact on the outcomes of adolescent emotional regulations and the behavior during adolescents (Feldman, 2011; Jabeen, Haque, & Riaz, 2013; Millings et al., 2012). Jabeen et al. (2013) states "parents play a crucial role in the social and emotional development of children" (pg.85). This part parent's play can be effected as stated above and the fluidity of parenting styles and their effects on adolescents should be observed. Through research looking at performance in school by Areepattamannil (2010), finds that supportive parenting yields higher achievement in school and is nearly as close in relationship to socioeconomic status.