Where Should Professionals and Parents Find Advice on Child Discipline and Praise?

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Where Should Professionals and Parents Find Advice on Child Discipline and Praise? English 101 October 13, 2012 Where Should Professionals and Parents Find Advice on Child Discipline and Praise? The request for advice by parents on how to most affectively praise and discipline a child is not a new phenomenon. In fact, any new parent will testify that advice is offered in any form, ranging from a direct solicitation by the parent to an unwanted opinion from anyone that may include a stranger on the street, a neighbor, a person on the bus or someone in the playground. The advice can range from how to feed their baby or to discipline their child differently. The parent is left to wonder how to properly parent and may question his or her own parenting style and goals. As a result, every parent must make a personal accounting and choose whose opinion to take and whose opinion to leave by the wayside. After examining two articles, “Carol Dweck's Attitude; It's not about how smart you are” David Glenn (2010) and “Disciplining young children: the role of verbal instructions and reasoning” co-authored by, Blum, Christophersen, Friman, & Williams (1995), one can conclude the source and presentation of advice on proper parenting techniques be only accepted after understanding and evaluating and determining whether or not it offers a legitimate platform for the advice. Glenn (2010), although not a psychologist himself, introduces Carol Dweck to his readership. Dweck is a psychology professor at Stanford University and consultant in education to public schools, and offers behavioral solutions to parents and educators. From her research, Dweck concludes that compliments that emphasize a child’s smarts are actually hurtful and force to bind their sense of self with their smarts (Glenn, 2010). In fact, the best advice for parents and professional
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