Parents Influence Children's Behavior

No single area of interaction alone can account for parents' influence on a child's behavior and social functioning. One study has emphasized four factors: (1) the degree to which parents try to control the child's behavior, (2) the pressures imposed on the child to perform at high levels of cognitive, social, or emotional development, (3) the clarity of parent-child communications, and (4) the parents' nurturance of and affection toward the child. While the parents respect their children's independence in general, responsible parents hold firm positions and provide clear reasons for them. Along with communicating their expectations from their children, and putting in place firm discipline tactics, it is also imperative that the parents let

Now the childhood itself is in crisis and the issues parents confronting today cannot be discounted as mere generational prejudices that our fathers and forefathers used to face. For instance, childhood obesity escalates as junk food sellers bombard children with advertising. They portray the happy meal, the heaven on the hand. A child cannot evade that. Today, children spend more hours engaged in multi-electronic medias – TV, games, videos and other online entertainments – than they spend in school. The mass media and communications are not natural or neutral invasion but change the way they wish. American kids 8 to 18 years old watch an average of 4 hours of TV daily. Hundreds of studies indicate that much of what children experience involves aggressive behaviors, horror of violence and sexual imagery. Sex, drug and violence that surround them are everywhere. They are becoming desensitized to violence and inert to human feelings in real life and suffering psychiatric disorders. Social scientists note that current generations of college students are the class to grow up having played video games for a good part of their childhood. Those games having significance on competition, frequently destroying objects and killing human could desensitize their own feeling and the feelings towards others as well. Yet children’s media remain largely unregulated. Video games

Ups and downs, agreements and disagreements will always remain a feature of all domestic households, and children will always take lessons from difficult situations and will mold themselves accordingly. But, what the parents can always try to avoid is the situation getting out of hand or the disagreements and discords becoming more frequent than they should. About 35% of women around the world have been raped or physically abused, according to statistics the World Health Organization (WHO) released in 2013, after analyzing data from 141 studies in 81 countries. About 80% of the time this violence occurs in the home, at the hands of spouse or loved ones. Domestic violence is not okay, never acceptable. Yet, World Values Survey from 2010 through 2014 -- an extensive study of social and cultural attitudes in almost 100 countries, conducted on an ongoing basis since 1981 – finds that one-third or more of men say may acceptable for a husband to "beat his wife," and that one-third or more of women agree that a husband who beats his wife may be justified, at least some of the time. The cultural acceptance of spousal abuse is so pervasive that in some countries, large majorities of women say it's acceptable as social norm. Domestic violence hurts women's overall health. It takes toll on their young children who develop various complications and abnormalities later in life. Examples are abundant