The Positive Parenting Program : The Triple P Program

An individual’s life and success is most dependent on their family environment and how they were raised. Good parenting is essential for a child’s educational and behavioral success and is a stressed trait throughout the world; however, in different cultures, good parenting can be defined and measured in many contrasting ways. In the United States, parenting and discipline methods have become controversial in the past fifty years, and the methods for raising children have drastically changed in some households.

Establishing positive parenting skills within the community will assist the parents in gaining new alternatives to their current practices. “Often we get the same families that are repeat offenders or they never really learn their ways of parenting are not acceptable” (Ruiz, 2015). Providing the “Strong Families” curriculum will reduce the number of children that are

Raising sons in single-parent households makes the mothers of Wes and Wes very influential on their children. Parenting can give minors a pathway to success or it can be a substantial risk factor for behavior issues: “Lack of parental involvement, poor monitoring and supervision, and harsh and inconsistent discipline, have all been established as strong predictors of antisocial outcomes in children and adolescents” (Hawes). While neither mother is able to adequately supervise their children due to their working statuses, Joy

Parents experiencing poverty may struggle to provide for their children and can become very stressed from dealing with the monotonous monetary requirements. Within poverty stricken households extreme variations of parenting and guidance can be observed, from little to no presence or direction, all the way to the other side of the spectrum with severe overreactions. “Higher levels of stress negatively affect parenting style, and these parents tend to be more authoritarian or inconsistent.” (Katz, 18) Family structures, living environments, mental health, personalities, and educational backgrounds are all likely to be contributing factor to both parenting

Much research has been done on the influence of a mother on a child’s well-being and development (Pougnet, Serbin, Stack, & Schwartzman, 2011). However, research has shown that an engaged and loving father can contribute greatly to a child’s cognitive, social, and psychological development (Bronte-Tinkew, Carrano, Horowitz, & Kinukawa, 2008; Duursma, Pan, & Raikes, 2008; Pancsofar & Vernon-Feagans, 2010; Wilson & Prior, 2010).

Over the course of an individual’s life span, one is seen forming relationships with several people in whom they find their presence an important aspect to their life. However, among these relationships, parent-child relationships are the most valuable, but also very complex. These relationships are built from a foundation of interaction starting from the birth of the child to their adulthood. Unfortunately, if this involvement is not present within a child’s life, it can ultimately cause them to feel neglected causing outrageous conflicts, behavior issues and emotional disputes. Parental involvement within a child’s life allows them to gain a sense of security ultimately increasing new learning of the child

Parent ability is weakened by living in poverty conditions and by the emotional and psychological stress associated with living in poverty (Kaiser and Delaney, 1996). Children rely on their parents and look to them to experience the world. If a family is living in poverty, they are lacking stability, security, and most of all healthy positive time together. These parents may not have time for their children, working night shifts or more than one job, money to afford transportation or care, or just a lack of education from his or her own personal experiences while growing up. Research shows that most parents, regardless of social status, absolutely love their children and what them to succeed in life. Many of these parents need to learn strategies that can help them cope and help their children get a chance at breaking the cycle of poverty (McGee, 1996). Obviously these parents do not want their children to grow up and be stuck living in poverty and facing hard life challenges everyday. I'm sure they want to help out in every possible way which is why they need guidance on ways to work with their children at home such as: activities that help their children learn but are fun and entertaining at the same time and informing parents of meetings or activities that take place at a local community center which in most areas is in walking distance. Parent involvement is extremely crucial and

10a. In Mazza’s article, he discussed the effects of parenting program on urban African-American adolescent fathers. His first main point is that more researches on adolescent fathers are needed because most research focused on adolescent parents focused on the teenage mothers. Mazza (2002) argued that the societal and traditional value see fathers as primary caregivers who should provide financial support to the families; however, there are not enough researches on and social programs to support adolescent fathers (Mazza, 2002). The second main point of the article is that parenting program is inefficient, but counseling sessions is more effective to the help the adolescent fathers. Mazza (2005) believed that social workers were able to provide

Parenting involves a lot more than just fathering or mothering a child. Often times, genetics don’t play a role in parenting at all anymore. Someone who parents is merely a person who takes on the responsibility of raising a child from a young age to adulthood. This can be through birth, adoption or foster care. Due to the large scale shift in society and offspring over time, I will be using the term “caregiver” to signify any person who consistently cares for a child throughout the rest of this paper. Regardless of the title used, each person ultimately performs the same duties involved with parenting and it is no task easily achieved.

Our program’s philosophy on positive child guidance is to discipline instead of punishing children for accidents or mistakes they make. With the help of our committed staff, we can provide a positive atmosphere that will allow the children to feel loved and accepted to help build their self-esteem. Our program will offer the children with choices, but there will also be reasonable, and developmentally appropriate limits. The educators will model positive behaviours that will teach the children to problem solve and build self-control in a healthy, and safe way.

In Jackson and Schines’ study, “Single Mother’s Efficacy, Parenting in the Home Environment, and Children’s Development in a Two-Wave Study” (2003), children's cognitive and behavioral development was examined in single-parent families in terms of the level of intellectual stimulation at home, quality of parenting, and relationship between the parents. For this study, 178 single black mothers whose children were between three and five years old were randomly asked to participate in this study, which consisted of answering questions about their employment levels, self-efficacy beliefs, depressive symptoms, and relationship with the child's father, to begin to understand how these factors and children's development relate. The article was confusing

Children characterized as “at-risk” must cope with day-to-day hassles of school, multiple stressors present in the home and neighborhood environments. Adolescent mothers are often characterized as being depressed, having low IQ’s, poor social supports, histories of abuse and/or neglect, residential instability, stressful relationships, punitive parenting practices, and a general lack of readiness to parent, each of these factors has a negative consequence for child’s development (Carothers, Borkowski, Whitman, 2006). Previous studies have shown children born to young mothers experience a variety of

In the community I work within we have many suprasystems that affect the community however single parent homes, and lately single father households are impacted by our community’s lack of services, cultural awareness, and low-incomes. According to Thyer & Dulmus when there is only one parent, the family is often less well off financially and this is the main reason for so many family problems. Furthermore, reports show that the effects of coming from a low-income family can include things like lower education levels, lower economic achievement and can result in leaving the child feeling isolated and lonely. These parents are having trouble obtaining services for mental health services. The health system in place is rigid and inflexible,

Throughout history a one-parent household has been deemed as a nontraditional family, but in today’s society it seems more and more common with every day. Although the reason and causes vary, each year the number of children raised by a single parent increases. Most people don’t seem to realize how much this can change a child’s future. The impact of childhood experiences simply set the disposition of adulthood and the rest of their lives. There is not one sole factor that affects child development, but one very important one is the role and relationship created with one’s parents. How a child is parented and raised leaves a lasting impression on them, commonly for a

Their findings indicated that when the emotional needs and security of a spouse is met they can better tend to the needs of the child or adolescents. Thus, the value of grounded relationships must be examined when looking at parenting styles as it is apparent to the quality of development in adolescents.