Parenting Choices & The Developmental Influence on Children
The way children are raised has a profound impact on their development across various dimensions. Religious upbringing can instill moral values but may also affect academic performance.
Parenting Choices & The Developmental Influence on Children
Relationships
Playing with a child strengthens your relationship and encourages the child to explore, observe, experiment and solve problems
Loving, stable and responsive relationships are fundamental to a child’s development
Expectations
high expectations negatively impacts their personalities and self worth
placing high expectations gives them no control
health
Depending geographically if your parents dont have good heath care and benefits it could affect the child health and ability to see the doctor
Stay At Home Parents
Always having someone home to take care of you, cook meals, help you with homework
Would't know what it would be like to be in daycare, more privileged because they can go right home and be with thier family
Divorce
Exposure to high levels of parental conflict is predictive of poor emotional adjustment by the child regardless of the parents' marital status
working parents
always busy, setting example for children, should make time to spend with their child because they could feel lonely or not loved enough
could get put into daycare and have more social interaction, and learn how to behave properly
Education
physical, social, emotional and cognitive development
success in school builds confidence, socially meet your friends, preparing for reading and writing
Religion
Teaches them moral codes & values
Very social, but if focused on religion could not be as academically along
Income
community groups
build relationships with places your parents trust, making new relationships being involved in the community will make you feel more involved in life
spanking
parenting style
Depending on the parenting style your expectations will be different making the child get away with alot more and not be punished or the other way areound, the way the parent treats thier kid and teaches them about life will affect the way they make relationships in the real world and how close they are with thier own parent
Stress
Punishments
proper punishment is treating them a lesson, how not to behave
Physical punishment is linked to insecure attachment and poorer relationships between children and parents
Siblings
relationships with them early on will help later on