Kathleen Parker’s Article, First Three Years Aren’t That Critical

Many parents disagree would disagree with the authors perspective of how children should be raised, however

In this day in age there are various approaches to raising children. Each parent(s) must decide for them selves which style best fits their beliefs and abilities. Many parents come to the conclusion that they will try their best and just hope that their children learn right from wrong and the abilities they need to succeed in life. However, what most parents do not always realize is that the style of parenting they are using may have a bigger impact on their child than they are aware of. For the sake of these parents and their sanity, as well as the children’s, I have classified these styles of parenting into categories.

Parents are not solely concerned about the emotional impacts, but the cognitive and social impacts as well. Social development can be described as, “the ways in which

The first strategy described by the author is to always know who is arguing and where they are coming from. By identifying the author’s viewpoints and meaning of their statements, you can better understand their stance: what it is and how they want it conveyed. When writing, it is also important to exude such qualities to your audience for formal and direct purposes.

There are many different types of parents with diverse parenting styles in the world. Some are efficient in their ways, while others struggle to wonder why their child did not turn out to be everything they hoped. The controversial topic of whether the parent knows what is best for their child hangs over the reader’s head in Amy Chua’s article.

A longitudinal study done by Lansford et. al involved the observations of 574 children from the ages 5 to 21. The participants were recruited when they entered kindergarten in 1987 or 1988 at Tennessee and Indiana. The parents of the children were randomly approached and asked if they would take part in the longitudinal study. Detailed interviews concerning the child’s developmental history were conducted with their mothers before they had entered kindergarten. In these interviews, the mothers were

Eiser, S., Redpath, A., & Rogers, N. (1987). Outcomes of early parenting: Knowns and unknowns. In A. P. Kern & L. S. Maze (Eds.), Logical thinking in children. (pp. 58-87). New York: Springer.

Every parent wants their child to succeed and will do just about anything to ensure that success, but not really knowing how to make their child successful is scary. What makes it worse is there is a lot of information out there about how to raise a child that isn’t really true. Chapter five talks a lot about the finding of the ECLS and what the data from it showed. Again conventional wisdom, in this case what factors of parenting affect test scores is proved wrong which isn’t very surprising. It made me think about what possible conventional wisdom I’ve heard which may be wrong. The ECLS data showed that there is still a black-white test score that stems from bad schools which is pretty depressing. I thought is was king of weird how it matters

In the article, Kai argues that parents should be required to take parenting classes. Sophie Thomas gives some experience to three mothers, and she strongly disagrees with the idea that parents don’t need to take parenting classes. Kai’s article is the better of the two, because Thomas’ uses own experience to support he claims, however, Fernandez has better evidence to back her claims.

The first weakness that is found is in some cases the author overgeneralized people and findings. With that being said, this is a flaw because the author is generalizing all the children and parents during almost the whole entire article. This may pose a problem for the reader because the readers may be thinking, “Well, that’s not the case in my life” or “I never did that as a child.” The author needs to recognize that not all children and parents is that the studies and experiences don’t apply to everyone. The paper needs to acknowledge that most children are like this not all, then give specifics of who, where, and when. For example, she overgeneralizes in the beginning of the research article by starting off that asking a question on where children are and what they are doing. She gives examples that they are in day-care centers, playing Play Station, watching TV, and that they’re not enjoying a casual conversation. She says that parenting for “us” is providing them with things like those earlier examples stated to keep them busy (Pierce, 2002, p. 39). She uses the words “us” and “children.” Not some, children or

In chapter five we learn about how several authors when writing on a topic chooses sides and how they argue their position against others. The author writes for a purpose as well as an audience. The purpose of the author choosing sides is to allow readers to alter the way they view the issue; maybe in a better or worse way or even the same. Sometimes the reading also helps those who lack knowledge on the issue settle on a side, in addition, those who have yet to decide on a side. In order for the author to capture a reader's attention, they need to establish the issue from the beginning in the title and the first few paragraphs or sentences of the paper. Using questions, statistics, quotes, or anything that may capture the reader's attention

Dasia, I complitely agree with you. By showing the subject from different points of view or from multiple sources, the author expresses his or her own opinion, supported by sources and inspires confidence in the reader. The more reliable the sources are, the higher level of credibility has the author.

Reason to Listen: Without learning about effective ways to parent, it can become a daunting task to raise a child.

I enjoyed reading your discussion post, but I would like to detail a few things in which I agree and disagree with it. The things that I would like to agree with are the facts that a child must always respect not only their parents but the elderlies as well, it teaches them responsibility and authority, and it also teaches the child that for every action there is a consequence. The one thing that you stated on your post that I would like to disagree with is “According to APA, some of the other disadvantages include delays in education, and psychological disorders which impact cognitive developments” (Shebab.) Why am I disagreeing with this statement? Sure; this may be a concluded official study by the APA, but the reason on why

Khazan begins the article by asking the rhetorical question about the necessity of punishing a child, and then proceeds to contradict this by stating that Kazdin a certified psychologist declares this untruthful. Following this, Khazan states that Dr. Kazdin, the director of Yale Parenting Center advocates for the unconventional parenting method of positively reinforcing behaviors that you want, oppose to the use of punishment to try to prevent the ones you do not want. After her transitional introduction, Khazan includes her interview with Alan Kazdin, Ph.D., Director of Yale Parenting Center to give professional credibility and insight to her controversial article. Interviewing someone who has a PhD and also specializes in parenting techniques certainly adds to the trustworthiness of the Doctors methods and insight. On the Yale Parenting Center’s official website, Dr. Kazdin emphasize the success and popularity of their methods by proclaiming that “The work that we do has been featured on NPR, PBS, BBC, CNN, and the Today Show… Good Morning America, ABC News, 20/20, and Dr. Phil to discuss and demonstrate what we do” (Kazdin) in attempts to impress and persuade potential clients, if not