Brain development in infants is positively affected when parents work to understand and meet their basic needs for love and affection and provide comfort when they are hungry, bored, tired, wet or cold. Negative experiences with parents of abuse, neglect and exploitation can overwhelm children. For example in the video Genie the wild child, Genie was raised in social isolation from an infant to 13 years of age. If she made a single noise, her father would abuse her. Abusive parents who use hitting, neglecting basic needs, and other action that lower an individual’s sense of self-worth, have a negative impact on the health of a child.
Divorce affects each member of the family which children experience it differently. Parents should sit down with their children and discuss the situation, but not going into detail, that would give mixed feelings towards the parent that is in fault. Even though parents are getting a divorce, they still are the most important people in a child’s life. Children tend to feel lonely, depressed, and rejected because of the situation. Children’s emotions, feelings, and how they cope with depends on how the parents display their coping skills (Lewis, 1999).
The body starts going through hormonal changes and can bring about changes in personality and behavior. The child is in need of many things from those they depend on the most; their parents. In the world today, many children are being raised with the absence of one parent due to divorce, death, or abandonment. What kind of a negative impact will this absence have on the adolescent? What psychological impact will the absence of a mother have on her daughter?
The short story “Two kinds” by Amy Tan is a personal heartbreaking story. It exhibits the conflicts in personalities, and the struggle between the child and parents. One now and then comes across many stories even in real life where he/she sees the sense of failure of expectation that the parents show, and there are cases where the parents try to live vicariously through their children. The parents believe that this is in the best interest of their children, and that causes them to be so motivated. Yes, of course the issue of family values, and morals should be taught to children at an early age.
The problem arises when parents fail to teach their children the correct way of behaving toward adults. Once threats are made, the parents back down and the teenager feels powerful. Now, the teenager has control over the parent, causing the parent to feel weak and powerless. Moreover, teens lately have been mimicking the disrespectful and disobedient attitude their friends exhibit in school. This can mainly be seen between a student and a teacher, another adult, or just a simple student with student.
Preschool 3-5 years Initiative vs. Guilt Children need to begin asserting control and power over the environment. Success in this stage leads to a sense of purpose. Children who try to exert too much power experience disapproval, resulting in a sense of guilt. School Age 6-11 years Industry vs. Inferiority Children need to cope with the new social and academic demands.
Independent people who experience broken hearted or emotional communications while being an infant mostly grow into adults who have a harsh time understanding their emotions and the feelings they have for others. These limits their ability to build or maintain successful strong relationships. Our style of attachment affects everything, our initial relationships and sadly how relationships end. This is the reason why can help us understand the strengths in a relationship. The attachment pattern is usually recognized through the early childhood.
Positive and Negative Reinforcement with Children Parenting is one of the hardest job there is, constantly worrying about their children health, safety and wellbeing. However, many parents struggle with disciplining their children. They struggle with constantly having to find a balance between how and when to discipline. Many child psychologists and child developmental experts have split discipline into two categories: positive and negative reinforcement. Reinforcement is used to help increase the probability that a specific behavior will occur in the future by delivering a stimulus immediately after a response or behavior is exhibited Each category has benefits when appropriately used, but can easy turn into abuse or neglect.
Let me be clear: parents have to be careful, because once that kind of behavior gets entrenched, it's very difficult to stop. By being rude, kids protect themselves-and they train adults what not to ask of them and what not to expect of them. The answer here is that you and your partner have to decide ahead of time how the kids in the family will talk to each parent. You set the expectations together, and then you remain consistent; you hold each child accountable. Here's an example.
Fear of confrontation with resourceful parents overwhelms their desire of alerting child neglect. As a result children may continue to live in negligent despite public knowledge. Children with disabilities have in general a larger risk of being abused (predators seek out the weakest). Knowing this, both families and teachers have a very low threshold for alerting Child welfare. The situation may improve if the issue of children’s welfare were put on the agenda, in media as well as in school.