Qualitative Parenting Case Study

Research has shown that out of the other parenting styles, authoritative is the most beneficial (Williams). When parent's use that parenting style, they have high expectations for their children. Other research has shown that when parents are authoritative and have high standards for their kids, their children will have a bond with their parents and they will learn how valuable it can be. People need to know how important creating good relationships with their children are because it will create trust between the parents and their family. It is always good for parents to communicate clearly to their children and set expectations that will have positive outcomes for the days to

Tara Culp-Ressler claims that raising children to adhere to strict gender roles is harmful to their health. In her article, she refers to a three month long study that was conducted on a group of young teenagers. The study observed their behaviors based on gender and the findings concluded that both genders exhibited potentially harmful behavior patterns; a large number of the boys in this experiment were violent with one another in an attempt to demonstrate their masculinity and they would often bury their emotional struggles. The girls felt pressure to live up to standards that had been set for them to be feminine, some even taking to restricting calories to stay thin because “real women are skinny.” Adding onto the stress already felt by adolescence, the teenagers in this study denied themselves of simple rights and pleasures; the girls didn’t want to participate in sports they liked because they were afraid of looking unattractive, and the boys refused to acknowledge most emotions if not seen as “manly,” also turning down any psychological help or a shoulder to lean on. Once the study ended, the teenagers were mostly on the same page when some said that they thought sticking to these gender roles was what they were supposed to do, even if they weren’t happy about it.

According to the article, The Authoritative Parenting Style: Warmth, Rationality, and High-Standards, “The authoritative parenting approach is linked with the most successful child outcomes.” One of the major focuses is finding a middle ground between too much freedom, and being too strict. It reflects a balance between two values, freedom and responsibility. The responsibility allows for the child to mature and organize their lives by doing tasks such as studying, getting good grades, just make to make good decisions overall. The freedom allows them to have a mind of their own; to hopefully apply making good decisions in life. It also gives them a chance to experience how the real world is. Authoritarian parenting would disagree with this tactic. There’s a belief that if a child is granted freedom, the child is being set up for failure. They do not see the point of freedom when keeping them to high-standards and strict rules will ensure that failure isn’t an option. While I can understand the point being made, it’s a bad parenting tactic. When a child doesn’t experience any bad, how are they supposed to function in the real world? They need freedom to be able to deal with disappointment or failure when they come across it when

More to the point, the male and female genders are characterized as opposites. All in all, gender as a fixed behaviour is the widely accepted understanding and those outside the gender binary are rejected. Research has provided evidence that is indicative of gender-variant children attempting to conform, but struggling due to a lack of support and from victimization directed towards them (Riley, Sitharthan, Clemson, and Diamond,

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Despite many of our beliefs, parents also influence their children on what is and what is not appropriate for their gender. Children learn a lot of day to day duties and behaviors from what they pick up from their parents. Normally parents tend to treat their children of different genders differently from the time they are born. They always expect different behaviors and reactions. For example, if a little girl falls and cries, she is immediately consoled and nurtured. At the same time if this same incident were to happen to a little boy he would be told to “suck it up crybaby” or “crying is for girls”. Instead of enforcing societies expectations on the child parents should help them aspire to become the unique person they are destined to be.

The progress in the education of gender norms has significantly advanced in recent years. The labels people used to use to identify someone’s gender has changed as more and more people start to identify outside of the original male/female genders. Sara Leifeste mentions in her article that kids are “still being socialized into their designated gender” meaning that after kids have somewhat developed, they are still being put into predesigned gender roles and are not given a choice (1). I agree that gender and sex are not the same, and that education on what the gender norms are starts with identifying the difference between gender and sex and evaluating the gender binary and going to a deeper understanding the people who live in and outside

At a very young age, parents will start to put their ideas and their own personality onto they're children. Things like manners, ideologies, and morals are showed to children at a very young age, so they can continue to learn these things later in life. However, another thing parents show us at a very young age are gender roles, and gender conformity. While it isn’t blatant and obvious as “no elbows on the dinner table!” it is more subtle and quiet, like “you don’t want to play with a barbie, you want a monster truck!”. As parents continue to subtly tell children what to and not to play with, they put control on how and what children perceive gender as. At a very young age, children start to equate dolls and nail polish to femininity, and

The optimal parenting style for child development, authoritative, can be seen in Sue’s parenting. Authoritative parenting, characterized by high warmth and control, is seen in parenting when rules and expectations are set, but these are discussed with the children before setting them into place (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2016, p. 238). Consequences for breaking these rules, or not meeting expectations, are fair and doled out only when necessary, and the children are given support by their parents that allow them to flourish as much as possible (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2016, p. 238). This is true for Sue, as she has set goals for her teenager that range from passing her classes with at least a B, to doing chores that were previously discussed with her on certain days, which are posted on a daily schedule on the refrigerator in clear view. If these expectations are not met, Sue’s daughter is given a calm description of how she did not achieve what was expected of her, and another chance is then given. If she repeats the mistake a second time, the daughter is grounded from using her phone or going out with friends for a certain period of time that matches the severity of the mistake. It is worth noting that the daughter is highly successful in school, earning

Teach your children boundaries, and give them the liberty within those boundaries. That teaches independence, but also self-control and respect for authority.

A very informative article on the study of the gender roles children feel stressed to conform to. The article provides insights in how children interpret each other’s masculine and feminine behaviors. When children are informed of how each gender feels the same, it relieves the pressure, thereby allowing the children to be more at ease with one another and exhibit their true behaviors. The stereotype of gender roles produces health risks such as eating disorders and low-level bullying.

According to cognitive developmental theory, children develop the stereotypic conceptions of gender from what they see and hear around them. Once they achieve this, the belief that their own gender is fixed and irreversible. They seek to behave only in ways that are congruent with that conception. An example of this would be a boy, who wants to do boy things, therefore the opportunity to do boy things is rewarding. Last is gender schema theory, here the mastery of gender identity, the ability of children to label themselves and others as males or a female is necessary for gender development. A child who knows the he or she is male or female, and can tell which someone else is due to his or her environment and norms can be an example of this (Shaffer, 2005).

In addition, a study was done on children ages 4, 6, and 8 to test flexibility about gender and parental influences. Assessments were focused around gender constancy, judgments about gender norms; results showed that younger children were more rigid than older children, showing parental influence is present (Cyphers, Lisa)(Conry-Murray, Clare).

Over and over we are told the “right way” to raise our children from peers, family members, and even strangers saying “do this” or “do that”, but what is the right way to raise a child in the world that we live in today? Many of the youth say that “times have changed” and the old ways of parenting are done, whereas the elderly or older generation would say that the best way to parent is the way that they were raised. What is better, being overprotective and strict on a child while they’re growing up in your home, or being more free and permissive? Two authors have touched on this particular question, and offer their answers to us with supporting facts. Hannah Rosin in her article on “The Overprotected Kid” and in “The Advantages of Strict Parents”, by Darlene Zagata, both understand and teach us that its vital that we should rear our children up correctly and make them independent, to set them up for success when their older. However, the author Hanna Rosin would state that the best way to parent comes from letting them be more free in making decisions, and having them experiment. While Darlene Zagata would say that it is by the rules of strict parenting that make kids turn into great independent adults.

During the stage of early childhood parents should consider the child’s social, physical and emotional development when deciding which parenting style to use. Some adults continue to practice their parents approach because that’s how they were taught. Others may have learned about parenting styles throughout their education or may have heard it from other parents. There are three main parenting approaches that parents use to educate their children which are authoritarian, permissive and authoritative approach. Authoritarian style is when there is only one-way communication and the parent is usually the one making the rules. Permissive style is when the parent is aware of what the child is doing, but does not provide caring relies on neglect. Authoritative style is when the parent and child work together to develop rules and positive guidance (Miller). Today, these parenting styles are the most common used upon children. Early childhood is a critical stage because children are starting to learn languages and are curious about how their surrounding works. The most appropriate parenting style to use during early childhood is authoritative approach.