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    A positive parent and child relationship is the main foundation for children’s knowledge. With parents and their sensitive, responsive, and predictable caring towards young children, it helps develop children’s skills they need to succeed in their lifetime. Likewise early parent-child relationships have powerful effects on children’s emotional well-being. Through these exchanges children learn skills they need to engage with other children as well as adapt in different types of environments. Children

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    How Parents can Better Love & Understand Their Kids Theresa Gusler Liberty University CCOU 302 Abstract This paper is about showing your children that you love them by promoting boundaries. It will explain what kids really want their parents know and understand. This paper also gets down to the basics of how to be a beacon of hope in this dark world. Show how to help our children maneuver through troubling situations by giving them positive values to fall

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    many of the important relationships formed between people throughout life, a parent and a child’s relationship is the most important. Parent and children relationships are formed from either one’s biological parent or their adopted parents. The relationship between these two types of formation are always formed. It’s obvious this relationship will be life lasting, since a person’s parents will always be involved in their life. The factors that play out when these relationships first start to form are

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    Importance of Parent-Child Relations Many people are raised without a mother or father and end up seemingly normal, but they might not be as well off as they seem. The percentage of children younger than 18 living with two parents has decreased dramatically over the last 40 years (Collins). This shows that increasingly more children have to get by with only one parent, changing the way they may act later on in life. It is represented in the books Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Frankenstein by

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    Introduction When imagining the relationship between a parent and a child, one usually envisions a caring mother or father cradling an infant in their arms, playing games with a toddler, or even teaching a school age child to read. These caring images are one of positivity and optimism. Indeed, familial relationships of this nature are rather typical for the typical supportive family, but what can happen when the family is not of typical form? When the picture takes on a dark undertone, say a

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    the love between a parent and child, a platonic friend, or a significant other. For many, a romantic relationship is the most important element in their lives. A good relationship can improve all characteristics of your life, such as strengthening health, mind and connections with others. The ability to have a healthy loving relationship is a lot of work, give and take, and comprising of one’s individual wants and needs. Whatever you put in, the more you can get back; relationships are investments.

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    Throughout life you will have many relationships with many different people. None of these however are as important as a parent child relationship. A bad experience could ruin it and affect you through the rest of your life. Tension alone between a father and son could make life so miserable that you'd do everything in your power just to avoid that person. This can be very stressful and really affect you in the long run. A good or bad parent child relationship can deal a great impact on the person

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    In the play Hamlet, there are many relationships between parents and their children. There are two families that can be used as examples, but many individual conclusions can be drawn for each parent-child relationship. The parenting techniques range from abstractly concerned to downright negligent. As the play progresses, the relationships deteriorate and we learn how parents’ choices can profoundly impact their children. Hamlet, the protagonist of the play, is a young adult whose father recently

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    Today’s parent to child relationships have become extremely fragile, but why? Communication between parents and their children plays a key role in relationships in literature, as well as real life. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare explores the lives of two families in the midst of a very long feud, the Montagues and the Capulets. When Juliet, a Capulet, and Romeo, a Montague fall in love Juliet decides she cannot tell her parents about it, only her Nurse. The decisions made by the two lovers

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    At the core heart of King Lear, we get to see the relationship between father and child. The double plot of King Lear consists of parallel stories of two hapless old fathers and of their children. Regan and Goneril speaks eloquently about the vastness of the love that they hold for their father, though they are speaking falsely, each attempting to appear the most loving and as a result they gain more territory. On the other hand Cordelia refuses to stoop to such pandering stating instead she shows

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