Week Eleven

This week we talked about parenting and everything that goes with it. We talked about different parenting styles and practices, some styles are Authoritarian, Authoritative, and permissive. The Authoritarian approach is to exercise maximum control and to expect unquestioning obedience. The Authoritative approach to parenting is to put boundaries on acceptable behavior within a warm, accepting context. Finally in Permissive parenting, the approach is to minimize any control. Parenting practices are behaviors that help achieve a specific goal. I especially liked the stop light theory when it comes to parenting Red means no, Yellow is maybe a ? if you will, and Green means go. In Class we covered several areas of parenting, I feel like we covered the topic pretty well. A quote that I thought was interesting is, "When we focus on the unmet needs of children we are unable to set aside the temptation to punish. We then help the child recognize and seek to fulfill their own needs in productive ways." This means that children need structure in their lives and that as parents we should focus on meeting the needs of children, and be proactive about what the child needs. Usually when a child misbehavior's it is because the child needs something. Its important to remember that when you are punishing a child its to extinguish an undesirable behavior and that good parenting does not come by accident it takes some work.