Chapter 1

Why study Parenting?

1) Primary aim of parent education?

• Help people learn how to provide care and guidance that can lead to healthy child development.

2) 5 reasons why people need parenting education:

• Increase resources, knowledge to parents.

• Cope in changing world

• Build strong society

• Gain rewards

• Meet parental responsibilities

3. How can distance from family affect parenting?

• Less support.

• isolation,

• Increased support needed from others.

4. Why is it important for parents to educate themselves on

changes in today’s society?

• Example:

• 7.5 million kids under 13 are on Facebook.– 5 million are under 10

– Why else?

5. Basic Building block of society:

6. How are parenting skills related to strength of society?

• Healthy, happy families raise productive citizens.

• Involved parents look for ways to improve families and communities…

7. Careers that use parenting skills?

The Coop

• http://www.thecoop-la.com/

8. 5 basic rewards of parenting:

• Youthful perspective

• Emotional fulfillment

• Family continuation

• Personal growth

• Sense of pride

9) 4 basic responsibilities of parenting:

• Nurturing

• Protecting

• Teaching

• guiding

10. How is a child nurtured?

• Giving attention, love sense of security to encourage growth and development.

11) Potential:

• What a person is capable of becoming.

• “What happens in childhood, like a child’s footprint in wet cement, leaves its mark forever.”

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Good experiences

• Good experiences, like nurturing parents and rich early-child-care environments, help build and reinforce neural connections in areas such as language development and self-control, while adversity weakens those connections.

12.How can parenting skills affect brain development in early years of life?

• "toxic stress" is severe, sustained, and not buffered by supportive relationships.

• brain flexibility, called plasticity, that makes children open to learning in their early years also makes them particularly vulnerable to damage from the toxic stressors that often accompany poverty: high mobility and homelessness; hunger and food instability; parents who are in jail or absent; domestic violence; drug abuse; and other problems.

• according to Pat Levitt, a developmental neuroscientist at the University of Southern California and the director of the Keck School of Medicine Center on the Developing Child in Los Angeles.

Vulnerability

• The exponential brain growth of infancy and early childhood also makes children more vulnerable to chronic stress during those years than at other developmental periods.

• Over time, the connections, good or bad, stabilize, "and you can't go back and rewire; you have to adapt," Dr. Shonkoff said. "If you've built on strong foundations, that's good, and if you have weak foundations, the brain has to work harder, and it costs more to the brain and society."

“The marshmallow test”

• a child's ability to delay gratification and control him- or herself—often seen as a personality trait critical for academic success—can be hugely dependent on the child's sense of stability in the environment and trust in surrounding adults.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EjJsPylEOY

• children who trusted the word of the adult tester and felt their environment was more stable waited four times as long for a treat as those who felt more insecure.

The effects of early stress can linger for decades and

go well beyond learning difficulties.• A boy with 6

indicators of abuse and home dysfunction was 4,600 % more likely than a boy with no risk factors to become an intravenous-drug user, according to the study.

13. What are values?

• Ideas that are important to a person.

• What types of values do you learn from family, parent? Answer…

14. How can learning about parenting help people who are

not parents?

15. What are two ways parents can develop skills needed in parenting?

• Answer…

Myths Teens Believe About Parents

• http://www.today.com/moms/hardest-part-parenting-when-they-grow-1C7415465?franchiseSlug=momsmain

Describe you future family…

• How many children would you want to have?

• How far apart in age? Gender?

• Names????

• What activities would you expect them to like?

• What goals would you have for your children?