Child Development chapter 4

What is a poor reason people give for wanting to become a parent?

• Having a baby will save their marriage.

• They have a desire to share their love and time with a child.

• They are financially secure.

• They are ready (emotionally, physically, and maturity wise) and stable and would like to start a family

From reading the text I can infer that parenting is what?

• Fun and easy and anyone can do it.

• A full-time nonstop job and can lead you to go insane.

• Parenting can be both challenging and rewarding

• Anyone can do it because it doesn't require any training, licensure, or skills.

Match the following ways that parents can develop good parenting skills.

• help families with infants/young children or in schools

• The can get knowledge by

• taking child care and parenting classes

• They can read

• professionals and/or successful parents

• They can volunteer to

• child development literature that is accurate, practical, and available

• They can ask

Complete this sentence: Parenting is an __________ process and role. This is according to Galinsky's parenting stages

• tiresome

• happy

• evolving

• independent

What are the main responsibilities of a parent's role?

• Nurturance, socialization, and guidance and discipline

• Being financially responsible and buying kids what they need.

• To reinforce the discipline they've decided on

To build a sense of belonging, parents ____________ their children, or train them to live as part of the larger social group.

Match the following term and definition

• includes the words and actions that parents will use to influence their children

• discipline

• when parents use some form of physical punishment or deny privileges

• power assertion

• is the use of methods and techniques to teach children to use self-control

• love withdrawal

• parents discipline their kids by reasoning/explaining why they should/shouldn't do certain behaviors

• induction

• when parents threaten children with being unloved or suggests some form of separation from the paren

• guidance

Match the following parenting styles with the definitions

• objective is to provide everything child wants with little guidelines or rules

• authoritarian

• parents provide for and protect child beyond best interest of child. Parents control child

• overparenting

• main objective is to make children completely obedient - uses power assertion

• permissive

• compromise between authoritarian and permissive; rules induction discipline, some freedome

• authoritative

Match the following term with definition

• "What are the rules we have in curfew in our house? What are the consequences for breaking it? "

• Authoritative parenting style

• are resources parent uses to meet child-related costs that could have been used to meet other goals

• Authoritarian parenting style

• "That must have been a really fun party that you got home late. Next time call and I'll go with you

• direct cost

• expenses related to raising a child and include clothing, food, housing, childcare, and education.

• Permissive parenting style

• "You missed curfew. Go to your room - you're grounded for the next 2 weeks!

• indirect cost