Facts about Parenting
Four main parenting styles have been identified in early child development research: Authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful.
Alfred Adler, a pioneer in the field of child guidance, designed parenting tools and education programs in an effort to prevent mental health problems in later life.
Parenting is usually done in a child's family by the mother and father (the biological parents).
Attachment parenting seeks to create strong emotional bonds and avoids physical punishment, with discipline being accomplished through interactions recognizing a child's emotional needs.
Parenting responsibilities for preschool age children often include (but are not limited to) feeding, bathing, toilet training, ensuring their safety, and attending to their well being.
Christian parenting is popular amongst Evangelicals and fundamentalist Christian parents who see it as applying biblical principles to parenting.
Outcomes associated with each type of parenting has traditionally shown a strong benefit to authoritative parenting.
Attachment parenting, a phrase coined by pediatrician William Sears, is a parenting philosophy based on the principles of the attachment theory in developmental psychology.
The term "child training" implies a specific type of parenting that focuses on holistic understanding of the child.
Neglectful parenting is similar to permissive parenting but is a parent-centered approach characterized by cold affect.
There have been many efforts to develop understanding of parenting, and to develop tools and educational programs to assist parents in better raising their children.
Parenting responsibilities during the school years include (but are not limited to) feeding, assisting with education, ensuring their safety and wellness, and providing them with a loving and nurturing home environment.
The strict father model of parenting is one which places strong value on discipline as a means to survive and thrive in a harsh world.
Permissive parenting is characterized as having few behavioral expectations for the child, and is a child-centered approach characterized by warm affect.
Authoritative parenting is characterized by high expectations of compliance to parental rules and directions, an open dialog about those rules and behaviors, and is a child-centered approach characterized by a warm, positive affect.
Parenting is the process of rearing children by promoting and supporting their physical, emotional, social, intellectual, moral and spiritual development from infancy to adulthood.
Parenting is usually done in a child's family by the mother and father (the biological parents).
Attachment parenting describes a parenting approach inspired in part by attachment theory.
Parenting typically utilizes rewards, praise, and discipline or punishment as tools of behavioral control.
The term "peak" does not mean that coal will disappear, but it defines the time after which coal production will begin to decline in quantity and energy content.
Information on Christian parenting may be found in publications, Christian Parenting websites, and in seminars devoted to assisting parents to apply Christian principles to parenting.
Many people believe that parenting begins with birth, but the mother begins raising and nurturing a child well before birth.
The coaching model has been found to be especially effective in parenting adolescents.
Attachment parenting holds that it is of vital importance to the child that to be able to communicate needs to adults and to have those needs promptly met.
Most significantly, parenting has been shown to be part of a bi-directional relationship between parent and child.
Authoritarian parenting is characterized by high expectations of compliance to parental rules and directions, the use of more coercive techniques to gain compliance, little parent-child dialog.