Middle Ground Parenting

Chapter 6 21st century child and peer pressure- How can parents protect their children against peer pressure, bullying and other related social problems. Peer pressure puts more strain on family bond than any other issue.

Scientific evidence has shown that families that maintain certain discipline can help mediate the chaos and stress of addiction. This lack of parental attention seems to be more detrimental to girls and boys; hence, the need for family strengthening interventions that encourage parents to be more involved with their children. (Resnik, 1997) By educating parents with proper information, the parents are able to provide protective factors to their children. The goal of family-based prevention programs is to promote positive behaviour development in youth by instilling proper family relational skills and inculcating behaviours that increase parent/child

On the other hand, there may be an instance where a teen is extremely insecure about their appearance and they’ve been bullied about it. The parents love their child and don’t see anything wrong. They might not even know about the bullying or even if their kid was insecure at

They might rely on caregivers but resist other’s social activity. Thus, the relationship with others is unstable and superficial. Then, infants might easily tend to develop the permissive-indulgent style parenting style afterwards under the caregiver’s

Lent also uses strong appeals to convey his argument. Dr. Lent also uses pathos to implicate several social complexity to evoke an emotional response to the audience, He uses phrases such as “brain development, social skills, behaviors, and even intelligence,” to reinforce how the quality of overprotective parents have it’s negative effects in their little ones day-to-day life. The author gives a sense of guilt that if parents are still choosing this path, the children will struggle in acquiring skills, acknowledge, and habits that will “leave them unable to deal with stress as adults.” Despite, the criticism the author gives, He also tries to uplift his audience through positive diction using words such as “beneficial,” and “positive” to motivate and inspire his audience how the use of acute stress will enhance a child’s growth in gross motor skills and enabling them to interact well with their surroundings.

Today, the terms secure, avoidant, resistant and disorganized/disoriented attachment are still used to define infant-caregiver relationships as well as adult romantic relationship styles and even the relationship between children and their kindergarten teacher” (http://childpsych.umwblogs.org). There are some critiques concerning attachment theory in general. Some feel that it isn’t necessarily true, that just because a child is in a certain environment, that they will behave how they are treated or taught. Some feel that this theory as too many limitations, and that because the behaviors are so limited in this theory, that it doesn’t account for exceptions to these types of children. But whether one agrees with the theory or not, there is still value to the concept that Mary Ainsworth

Being a good parent involves having an authoritative yet understanding and pliable view on a child’s wants and needs in life. Setting rules and boundaries with an authoritative attitude in parenting is essential. Letting a child have too much freedom does not end well. Children often get into mischief or serious trouble. The grandmother in HFSW gives the girl too much space and allows disrespect and defiance take place.

To solve these problems parents try to use various ways of influence on their children. Some of them are effective, some are not, it is very individual and depends on the character of the teenager. Moreover, it is age of storm-and-stress that causes much misunderstanding. According to the scientific research, teenagers with proper upbringing have fewer problems with their parents and generation gap is not so noticeable in these families, contrary to children from dysfunctional families who suffer from the lack of parental care, misunderstanding and indifference.

People who usually pursue hunt for rewards and payments without fearing any consequences even if they are fatal for themselves and other people. Even though punishment is one of the ways children learn that for every mistake there will be a penalty, in many cases rebellious children find it hard to cope with rules and morals implied on them by their parents. According Savi and Akbov, empirical evidence proved that there is a relationship between parental personality and parenting behavior which indirectly affects the psychology of children. They also added that supportive and nurturing parenting is positively correlated to

The amount of attention, love, support, freedom, and affection a child gets from their parent is extremely important to their development. A lack thereof can result in insecure attachment patterns displayed by the child encourage decreased self-esteem and