Amy Chua Stereotypes Parenting What makes a child excel? Amy Chua‚ in her work “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”‚ writes to inform her readers that Chinese parents raise successful children because they are stricter than typical Western parents. She states that Asian parents hold higher standards‚ that Asian parents are more direct and even caustic in their reprimanding of their offspring‚ and that the Chinese believe children owe their parents everything is the cause of these
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Parenting to means to be able to take care of a child by giving them love‚ care and guidance. Parents should always be responsible and it’s their duty to protect their children from anything which may harm them. It is difficult to be a good parent sometimes especially when your kids aren’t listening to you‚ however even when your anger is justified there are many things which are still not acceptable. Parents should never compare their children to each other or to another person’s kids. Children
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Parenting is one of the most challenging‚ yet meaningful life tasks. Unfortunately‚ popularwisdom and misconceptions about how to raise responsible kids can lead to ineffective communication and power struggles Some parents use authoritarian parenting strategies that do not allow the child an independent voice or sense of efficacy. Other parents overcompensate with overly permissive parenting that doesn’t teach kids about limits andself-control. Research shows both extremes can interfere with kids’
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Explain the author’s viewpoint/main idea/purpose In the article Parenting: The Lost Art‚ Kay Hymowitz discusses the recent trend in this youth idolizing culture‚ where the lines between parent and friend are blurred. Without those clear distinctions‚ “entertainment companies” and peers‚ rather than parents‚ are setting the standards for one another without a framework of what is normal or acceptable behavior. The media and so called "entertainment companies" continually abuse power by routinely
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an explanation of attachment Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space (Ainsworth‚ 1973; Bowlby‚ 1969). Attachment does not have to be mutual. One person may have an attachment with an individual which is not shared. Attachment is characterized by specific behaviors in children‚ such as seeking proximity with the attachment figure when upset or threatened (Bowlby‚ 1969). Bowlby’s theory states that attachment is adaptive and innate
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responsive to their needs. Image by Jeff Osborne What is Attachment? Attachment is an emotional bond to another person. Psychologist John Bowlby was the first attachment theorist‚ describing attachment as a "lasting psychological connectedness between human beings" (Bowlby‚ 1969‚ p. 194). Bowlby believed that the earliest bonds formed by children with their caregivers have a tremendous impact that continues throughout life. According to Bowlby‚ attachment also serves to keep the infant close to the mother
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One of the wonders in the world is when two people become parents. Parenting comes with much responsibilty. It is a learning experience‚ and though some skills of parenting come natural‚ others do not. People believe that if we require people to pass a driving test before licensing them to operate a car‚ we should require them to pass some kind of parenting test before allowing them to have children. As an American‚ I believe in the unalienable rights that were set down and stated in the Declaration
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adjust to different social factors by using particular family compositions. Throughout history‚ families have taken on many different forms‚ shaped by economic and social factors. These family forms sometimes changed within the same country as the needs of families changed. In the past‚ for example‚ families often had more children than the average family does today. In part‚ this is because children represented an economic benefit for families‚ as children contributed to the work of farms and businesses
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Reactive Attachment Disorder and Attachment Therapy University of New York in Prague Reactive Attachment Disorder and Attachment Therapy Introduction There has been growing attention on attachment theory and its impacts on later behavioral outcomes. Several research have found an association between attachment insecurity and personality disorders due to inconsistent and unstable sense of self; and association between insecure attachment and physical
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Insecure Attachment Unfortunately‚ as many as 30% of children develop insecure attachment relationships with their parents. Toby and Hugo are two of them‚ they are both 18 months old and they were classified as the insecurely attached babies. Attachment theory research tells us that infants will likely experience one of three types of insecure attachment if they do not get responsive‚ nurturing‚ consistent care in the early weeks and months of their lives. The first type of insecure attachment
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