Parents play a big part in influencing a child’s gender identity both mother and father. The family has big influence on children at certain ages, adolescence is the main time. At this age children are insecure and look for role models for examples their elder brother, sister or mother and father. Feeling insecure influences young children to go on a journey to become more independent from their families and so therefore they look for norms and values in these situations. From this children will then pick up subtle hints which have a great impact either positive or negative.
He advises the reader to learn the same skill sets early on in life so that they can take advantage of the opportunities in front of them. Twain makes fun of the parents’ false sense of control of their children. Twain explains how kids really act, and when they should obey their parents. He states “[always] obey your parents, when theyare present (291).Twain is not telling kids to disobey their parents. He is telling parents when their children are alone they don’t always follow the rules.
He learns to depend on others too much and he feels guilty about his ideas. If he is successful in this stage he learns that he has a purpose and he is able to face challenges. Industry vs. Inferiority; this stage occurs between 6 years to adolescence. At this stage children begin to develop a sense of pride in their achievements and capabilities. They try to perfect some of their skills they already know.
Boarding schools are seen by most of the parents as the gateway to success, a privilege that not many could afford for their children. It is a major transition in a child’s life, which is instrumented by the parents with the express desire of ensuring their child’s bright future. This transition from the family life to a boarding school life is sometimes not a smooth process and it could inflict a set of psychological scars on a child’s personality and, on other occasions, it could enhance the child’s potential for success. Joy Sceverien, in his essay “Boarding School: The Trauma of a ‘privileged child’ identifies the problem of ‘double bind’ in which the child is forced to inculcate the parental view regarding the boarding schools, which eventually leads to other psychological damages. On the other hand, Nick Duffel in his ‘Surviving the Privilege of Boarding School’ points out how this transition could force the child into reinventing himself.
Kids are highly influential especially at a young age. A child who sees a father abusing his mother might grow up and find it acceptable to beat on his own wife and kids, alas the cycle continues. Society also play a very big part in this, we now see and accept divorce and broken families as a new normal. Since many fathers generally are not the major caretakers of their kids after a divorce, bad feeling are formed with the kids. These negative feelings are due to dads not regularly seeing and interacting with their kids.
Public school allows more interaction and socializing with other children, while home schooling concentrates on the how child progresses educationally, as the needs of the child are met. It is the goal of the parent home schooling to see their child succeed. Many parents would want to home school the child because of a hundred percent involvement in the child’s education, this is a major decision for any parent, but I know most parents wants to know how much their child is progressing on a daily basis, what are they learning and knowing they are a part of their child’s education. Most parents think it might be expensive to home school but it is not, most learning material can easily be found online for free. There is a famous quote by John F. Kennedy “The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” As a parent, people around us might view home schooling as better especially those that home schooled as a child growing up.
Children always have the need to satisfy their parents. For example, if you have a mother as a doctor and a father as a lawyer, the child feels like they would have to live up to their expectations. Even a child whose parents are uneducated they may face pressure to be the first to break through and succeed for their family and/or community. The stress from these can lead to depression where a child may drop out altogether, burnout, or do anything necessary to fulfill the expectations of others that mean well for the child and their future. Society is another huge cause of pressure.
The observer will either mimic or avoid the actions based on the consequences that the person who initially performed the action received. This can be a very useful tool in the development of child rearing. Through observational learning, children learn valuable life-skills at a very young age. Child rearing, otherwise known as parenting, is teaching and nurturing of a child from birth until adulthood. Children learn a lot during this time from watching others, especially their parents.
Title: Patient Parent Specific Purpose: To inform my audience how to be more patient when it comes to parenting. Patience is probably the key skill that a parent needs to master when it comes to dealing with kids. It always seems so simple and easy to lose patience and yet so difficult and sometimes almost impossible to find more of it. Of course it's impractical to be patient all the time trying to cover up the true frustration you feel inside, but try these tricks sometime and see the wonders you create in your relationship with your kids. I’m sure many of y’all that have kids find yourself at a point in time whereas you become impatient with your children for many different reasons.
‘Good parenting is authoritative in which parents keep eyes on their children and try to understand the mindset of their children.’(Sarwar, 2016) Somebody comment authoritative style is utility, but under psychology sense it provides a mutual communication to the kids. In conclusion, there is still room for discussion on how parenting style affect children and what is the effectiveness in teaching