Parenting Skills 1.08 review/critical thinking
Review Questions
What are the differences between being a biological parent, an adoptive parent, and a foster parent?
- Being a biological parent means to create (or, as stated in the text, “beget”) an offspring. Meanwhile, to be an adoptive parent is to adopt a child and assume all responsibilities corresponding with it, despite it not being the adoptive parent’s child. Foster parents are similar to adoptive parents, but assume responsibility for the child temporarily.
What financial needs are parents obligated to provide and which are optional?
-It is obligatory for parents to provide their children with nutrition, shelter, clothes, and health care. Luxuries like postsecondary school, toys, and electronics are optional.
What other needs might a child have that a parent is expected to provide?
-A child may have safety, emotional, educational, and disciplinary needs that are expected to be fulfilled by the parents.
What are the qualities of a nurturing parent?
-The qualities of a nurturing parent are self-respect, empathy, reasonable discipline, and understanding.
Critical Thinking Questions
What qualities make a person a good parent? A bad parent?
-A good parent is nurturing, understanding, and willing to make an effort to be on good terms with their child and help their child reach their full potential. A bad parent, contrastingly, is one who brings a child into their life for personal gain, who does not allow a child to voice its opinions or concerns, and does not know how to determine a proper punishment for the mistakes a child is bound to make.
Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most challenging? Why?
-I believe the most challenging responsibility to take on as a parent would be to discipline a child. We are all different people with different mindsets, parents and children alike, and determining how harshly to reprimand a child (especially a small one) for its faults is very difficult because there is no surefire way to
What are the differences between being a biological parent, an adoptive parent, and a foster parent?
- Being a biological parent means to create (or, as stated in the text, “beget”) an offspring. Meanwhile, to be an adoptive parent is to adopt a child and assume all responsibilities corresponding with it, despite it not being the adoptive parent’s child. Foster parents are similar to adoptive parents, but assume responsibility for the child temporarily.
What financial needs are parents obligated to provide and which are optional?
-It is obligatory for parents to provide their children with nutrition, shelter, clothes, and health care. Luxuries like postsecondary school, toys, and electronics are optional.
What other needs might a child have that a parent is expected to provide?
-A child may have safety, emotional, educational, and disciplinary needs that are expected to be fulfilled by the parents.
What are the qualities of a nurturing parent?
-The qualities of a nurturing parent are self-respect, empathy, reasonable discipline, and understanding.
Critical Thinking Questions
What qualities make a person a good parent? A bad parent?
-A good parent is nurturing, understanding, and willing to make an effort to be on good terms with their child and help their child reach their full potential. A bad parent, contrastingly, is one who brings a child into their life for personal gain, who does not allow a child to voice its opinions or concerns, and does not know how to determine a proper punishment for the mistakes a child is bound to make.
Which parental responsibilities do you think would be the most challenging? Why?
-I believe the most challenging responsibility to take on as a parent would be to discipline a child. We are all different people with different mindsets, parents and children alike, and determining how harshly to reprimand a child (especially a small one) for its faults is very difficult because there is no surefire way to