Parenting Styles
Parenting Styles
A good summary can be found in this flinders University Assignment [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/education/DLiT/2002/family/parent.htm]. all check out thier bibliography:
Dinwiddie, S. 1995, Effective Parenting Styles [Online, accessed 31 March 2001]
URL:http://www.kidsource.com/better.world.press/parenting.html.
Goodman & Gurian, 1999, Parenting Styles/Children's Temperaments: The Match [Online. accessed 31 March 2002]
URL:http://www.aboutourkids.com/articles/parentingstyles.html.
Huxley, R. 2001, The Four Styles of Parenting. [Online, accessed 31 March 2002]
URL:http://myria.com/relationships/parenting/fourstyles.htm.
Parlins, N. 1999, Parenting Styles and It's Correlates. [Online, accessed 31 March 2002]
URL:http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed427896.html.
Insight has an episode about parental involvement in pushing kids to excel: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/pushing-success
ADOLESCENT PEER GROUP ORIENTATION, ATTACHMENT/PARENTING STYLES AND MENTAL HEALTH
Giving up children
It's a massive social taboo for a woman to leave her children. SBS Insight has an episode Mothers who leave [https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/mothers-who-leave] that looks at the issue from both a maother's and a child's perspective.
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Asian Parenting
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Corporal Punishment (hitting kids)
There are many different perspectives on spanking children to teach appropriate behaviours. In western society, it is currently seen to be ineffective as a form of discipline and even a form of child abuse. Before you begin investigating this topic, make sure you have defined "spanking" (hitting once, beating up? hitting on the bottom, hand head? with a hand, belt, stick?)
Western views of spanking are summarised by Hand in Hand [http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/whats-the-problem-with-spanking/]. Both sides of the argument are represented in these debates at Debates.org [http://www.debate.org/search?q=spank]
SBS Insight [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/tough-love] gives an australian perspective on these ideas.
Psychology Today [http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-me-in-we/201202/how-spanking-harms-the-brain] identifies many ways in which spanking can damage a child. Jo "Supernanny" Frost is internationally known as an expert in behaviour management. In this interview she speaks out against spanking on the Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/supernanny-jo-frost_n_4914393.html. She focuses on understanding child psychology rather than simply reacting to a situation. However, Psychology Today [http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/encountering-america/201409/the-problem-time-outs-0] asserts that her time-out solution to discipline is also psychologically damaging.
Things to think about:
In what ways might spanking be considered abuse (think social and emotional abuse not just physical)?
Why is it importand to teach children discipline
What sittuations would make it okay to spank a child?
How common is spanking children?
What would happen if a law was passed against spanking (would all those people end up in prison)?
Discipline is important for social and personal growth. What other methods could be used to discipline children?
Is there any guarantee that these methods are less damaging to a child?
One issue arising from changed attitudes to corporal punishment is whether the way we bring up our children should be a private decision between parents or a subject for public debate leading to legal change. think about the arguments presented in the Courier Mail [http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-debate-on-whether-or-not-to-slap-children-hits-a-raw-nerve/story-fnihsr9v-1226781936971?nk=88c019377fa05d0748ea93a299732eb7]
Rights Now [http://rightnow.org.au/topics/children-and-youth/the-slap-corporal-punishment-and-childrens-human-rights/]
suggests that australia's lack of laws against spanking childrenis against our international committment to human rights. Australia is currently thinking about changing it's laws to make spanking illegal. The Australian Psychological Society [http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/corporal/] suggests this might be a good idea and includes many useful statistics.
This The Age article summarises some reactions [http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/smack-the-child-go-to-jail-parents-pressured-20090822-euef.html].
Studies at the Southern Methodist University show that education about corporal punishment does cause a change in parents' behaviour. [http://blog.smu.edu/research/2014/01/21/parents-less-likely-to-spank-after-reading-briefly-about-its-links-to-problems-in-children/]
The Australian [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/experts-give-smacking-the-wooden-spoon/story-e6frg6zo-1225790591971]
cites studies linking physical punishment with lower IQ results but does not identify the definition of "corporal punishment" used in the study. nor does the study prove that coproral punishment causes the lower IQs. The correlation may be the result of other problems - families who hit their children are also likely to use consitant verbal abuse (eg "put downs") which could also account for the correlation. What do you think?
Western views of spanking are summarised by Hand in Hand [http://www.handinhandparenting.org/article/whats-the-problem-with-spanking/]. Both sides of the argument are represented in these debates at Debates.org [http://www.debate.org/search?q=spank]
SBS Insight [http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/tvepisode/tough-love] gives an australian perspective on these ideas.
Psychology Today [http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-me-in-we/201202/how-spanking-harms-the-brain] identifies many ways in which spanking can damage a child. Jo "Supernanny" Frost is internationally known as an expert in behaviour management. In this interview she speaks out against spanking on the Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/supernanny-jo-frost_n_4914393.html. She focuses on understanding child psychology rather than simply reacting to a situation. However, Psychology Today [http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/encountering-america/201409/the-problem-time-outs-0] asserts that her time-out solution to discipline is also psychologically damaging.
Things to think about:
In what ways might spanking be considered abuse (think social and emotional abuse not just physical)?
Why is it importand to teach children discipline
What sittuations would make it okay to spank a child?
How common is spanking children?
What would happen if a law was passed against spanking (would all those people end up in prison)?
Discipline is important for social and personal growth. What other methods could be used to discipline children?
Is there any guarantee that these methods are less damaging to a child?
One issue arising from changed attitudes to corporal punishment is whether the way we bring up our children should be a private decision between parents or a subject for public debate leading to legal change. think about the arguments presented in the Courier Mail [http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-debate-on-whether-or-not-to-slap-children-hits-a-raw-nerve/story-fnihsr9v-1226781936971?nk=88c019377fa05d0748ea93a299732eb7]
Rights Now [http://rightnow.org.au/topics/children-and-youth/the-slap-corporal-punishment-and-childrens-human-rights/]
suggests that australia's lack of laws against spanking childrenis against our international committment to human rights. Australia is currently thinking about changing it's laws to make spanking illegal. The Australian Psychological Society [http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/corporal/] suggests this might be a good idea and includes many useful statistics.
This The Age article summarises some reactions [http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/smack-the-child-go-to-jail-parents-pressured-20090822-euef.html].
Studies at the Southern Methodist University show that education about corporal punishment does cause a change in parents' behaviour. [http://blog.smu.edu/research/2014/01/21/parents-less-likely-to-spank-after-reading-briefly-about-its-links-to-problems-in-children/]
The Australian [http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/experts-give-smacking-the-wooden-spoon/story-e6frg6zo-1225790591971]
cites studies linking physical punishment with lower IQ results but does not identify the definition of "corporal punishment" used in the study. nor does the study prove that coproral punishment causes the lower IQs. The correlation may be the result of other problems - families who hit their children are also likely to use consitant verbal abuse (eg "put downs") which could also account for the correlation. What do you think?
discipline
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