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    Raising a child has always been a disputable topic for Americans. Every parent as well as people who don’t even have kids, have their own opinion on how a child should be raised. In Amy Chua’s “ Why Chinese Mother are Superior”, we read about her life as a mother raising her children, and how it has affected her family as well as herself. She claims that by punishing a child and building them up will present them to their full potential, the end result will be rewarding with a confident and successful

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    choice of parenting style creates the foundation for the child’s psychological and social development. Parents can choose from different approaches in raising their child; they can be strict, moderate or lenient. Authoritarian parents are characterized as being demanding and controlling and intolerant of their child’s bad behaviour (Aslam and Sartaj, 2001). On the other hand, authoritative parents are also defined as demanding but are more understanding as regards to the child’s failures and will try

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    ”Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” It is impossible to deny the difficulty of childrearing. There is no manual but there are indeed methods more ethically correct than others. This is of course a subjective matter and often leads to endless discussions. The ways of childrearing have changed over the years and varies a lot based on the environment/country surrounding the parents and their children. In the article, “Why Chines Mothers are Superior”, Amy Chua, the professor at Yale law school, attempts

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    Many teenagers nowadays have to put up with parents high standards. They are forced to do many things do not want to just to please their parents. This type of pressure can lead to very bad behavior from the children causing many fights to happen between them. I believe most parents have these high standards because they want their child to be extremely successful in life. Also, it could because they want their children to make them look good to everyone else. In the story “Two Kinds”, the author

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    find McDonalds to be 30% responsible so that will have to pay 30% of intended claim. However, McDonalds must found guilty of fault aside from the fault of being the producer/seller of the product. Contributory fault can pressure corporations to take sufficient precautions protecting their consumers from harmful products. 3. Should every state establish strict or total liability ? Why? Yes they should. Every state allows legal claims based on common law strict liability, but only states with a dog

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    Todays mothers will quite literally do anything for their child and can begin to feel like they are on the verge of insanity, and yet they still feel like it’s not enough. They feel such a gigantic guilt thinking that somehow they must know every need of their baby before the baby itself even knows what it wants. Mothers feel like they can never stop nursing, never stop rocking, and never stop carrying the baby like the baby must be held, loved, and cared for at every moment of every day. But fifty

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    Many say that the reason why a girl acts like a girl and boy acts like a boy is because the punishment that they have received for doing certain things, as well as the rewards that have been given to them as they do good. “This theory states that children learn their gender roles by receiving rewards or punishments, and throughput observations and imitation” (Zoe Jackson 2014). If a little boy walks into a toy store and picks out a barbie doll that first reaction that a parent might give is a loud “no”

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    them to describe their parent I wanted to see if parenting styles have some effect on whether they would steal or not. The middle schooler said that his mother was stricter, and his father was more laid back and lenient so that made me think his mother is more Authoritarian and the father was more permissive in their parenting styles. Authoritarian parenting, also called strict parenting, is characterized by parents who are demanding but not responsive. Authoritarian parents “allow for little open

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    It is understandable that dress codes need to be in all schools or else students would be coming to school in their bathing suits, but in the other hand all of the school’s rules on dress codes don’t make any sense. That is why dress codes in American schools should be strict but clear. American students have many clothing options when it comes to shopping for clothes especially clothes for school. A lot of the time the clothing the students choose usually are more towards their own

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    A Child Observes and Imitates Today it is normal to see a child throw a tantrum; disobey an adult, such as their parents or a teacher. It is agreed that society and peers have a high impact on how these children learn what they know. Albert Bandura is known for Social Learning Theory, the theory states that people learn new things and develop new behavior by observing other people (Explorable.com). Bandura is known for one of his most famous experiment which was the 1961 Bobo doll study. In the

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