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Catherine Woodgold
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You ask for references (Against Spanking) Spare the Child : The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse by Philip Greven. This is a richly researched, acutely unsettling study of corporal punishment in the United States. It focuses on the "Christian" use of Biblical texts to justify corporal punishment and its destructive legacy in our culture. Shame, Images of God and the Cycle of Violence by Jeanette Anderson Good Beating the Devil out of Them: Co ...
Baumrind bogus 2. And went unpublished.
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Baumrind, if you don't recall, was the "researcher" that presented, orally, to an annual APA conference her conclusions that spanking presented no problems and in fact had a positive effect on children's behaviors. A glaring fallacy as any examination of her study methodology would show. Interestingly, as this author in response says, she not only didn't have it published, it would have likely been turned down by any reputable organization in social research FOR publication. Robert Fat ...
John Rosemond and Breastfeeding
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Just a quick note regarding John Rosemond's column in today's paper: John Rosemond is a parenting "guru" who writes a syndicated column that appears in my local newspaper. He is *not* what could be called an AP advocate at all. At any rate, his column today addressed the Illinois woman whose 5-year-old was taken away by CPS because he was still breastfeeding. Contrary to what might be expected given his parenting philosophy, he was very critical of what was done in Illinois. He basical ...
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Combining Love and Limits in Authoritative Parenting: A Most previous research on parental discipline has been done in such a way that it was impossible to detect the effectiveness of a reasoning-punishment combination. It has almost always been an effective disciplinary response when a research investigator looked for it. In some studies the superior effectiveness of a reasoning-punishment combination was shown in terms of immediate compliance (Chapman & Zahn-Waxler, 1982 ; Crockenberg & Litman, 1990 ; Davies, McMahon, Flessati & Tiedemann, 1984 ; Goodenough, 1931 ; Lytton & Zwirner, 1975) , whereas other studies showed it in terms of moral ...
As an idealized disciplinary sequence, this conditional sequencing model has several important features. First, it is consistent with authoritative parenting, as opposed to either authoritarian or permissive parenting. Authoritative parenting uses both reasoning and firm control. Authoritarian parenting tends to skip the reasoning and go immediately to punishment. Perhaps they would also be more likely to go directly to harsher punishment without first trying a milder form of punishment. Permissive parenting is less likely to try to modify children's behavior with either reasoning or punishment.
AboutOurKids.org | About Discipline - Helping Children Develop The foundations for discipline are laid down in the early years. During the first year of life, as parents establish a trusting relationship with their baby, they set the climate for parent/child interactions through the years. Sometime between the ages of 1 and 2, the individual previously thought of as a baby suddenly bursts onto the scene as a full-fledged person with very specific wants and needs. As toddlers begin to move around they test their independence, and they need to be helped to understand what is safe, what they can and cannot do. Focused with ...
Use language to help solve problems Establish fair, simple rules and state them clearly. When children acquire language, help them use words, rather than actions, to express how they feel. Similarly, when you are disciplining your child, tell her that you understand what she's feeling. After the preschool years, a child is able and interested in understanding behavior. For example, a 7-year-old may hit her younger brother when he grabs her toy. In the child's world, it's difficult to have a younger sibling messing with your ...
Behavioral Problems: Problems in Adolescents: Merck Manual Home Adolescence is a time for developing independence. Typically, adolescents exercise their independence by questioning their parents' rules, which at times leads to rule breaking. Parents and doctors must distinguish occasional errors of judgment from a degree of misbehavior that requires professional intervention. The severity and frequency of infractions are guides. For example, drinking habitually, fighting often, frequent truancy and theft are much more significant than isolated episodes of the same activities. Other warning signs include deterioration of performance at school and running ...
Children occasionally engage in physical confrontation. However, during adolescence, the frequency and severity of violent interactions increase. Although episodes of violence at school are highly publicized, adolescents are much more likely to be involved with violence (or more often the threat of violence) at home and outside of school. Many factors, including developmental issues, gang membership, access to firearms, substance use, and poverty, contribute to an increased risk of violence for adolescents. Of particular concern are adolescents who, in an altercation, cause serious injury or use a weapon.
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Do You Know Your Parenting Style? Do You Know Your Parenting Style? Want to be a better parent? Knowing what your current parenting style is will help you identify your needed areas for improvement. Promoting the self-discipline and self-esteem of the children in your family often requires an emotional juggling act by you as a parent. It is not easy to be firm and demanding with a child one minute, then warm and affectionate the next. This is an ongoing education process both for the parent and for the child. In addition, many adults naturally have personalities or temperaments that predispose them toward one parenting ...
Narrative Therapy: What's Your Story? In preparation for the upcoming Parenting Class, I've been reading about Narrative Therapy and find the concepts stimulating. One interesting notion is that "an alternative to traditional therapeutic certainty is curiosity ." To elucidate, in traditional therapy the client is diagnosed as having a certain problem (depressed, anxious, dependent, etc.), and the therapist is the expert who 'knows' rather than being curious about the client. The problem belongs to the client, rather the client having a problem outside their identity. These concepts have some parallels to authoritarian versus authoritative ...
About Me Jan Matney I'm the quintessential baby-boomer, finding more ways to explore and create my life in my 60s. Currently, I am turning to parenting with renewed interest: my own experience with it and what I believe is possible. Although I had a psychotherapy practice for 14 years, I never worked with parenting issues. I was too nervous about my own parenting. I now know there are no guarantees in parenting, yet many opportunities to live fully into our love for children. I’ve also learned that parenting isn't over just because the kids are grown. For 20 years I've been evolving ...
MORAL COGNITIONS AND PROSOCIAL RESPONDING IN ADOLESCENCE From the late 1960s through the 1980s, research on moral judgment flourished, especially work influenced by Kohlberg’s (1981, 1984) influential cognitive developmental approach to moral judgment. In addition, there was a marked upsurge in empirical research on prosocial development from the early to mid-1970s until approximately a decade ago. Much of the early research on moral judgment included adolescent study participants; moreover, in recent years there has been an inordinate amount of research on adolescents’ aggression and antisocial behavior. Nonetheless, as noted by Hoffman ...
Why Have Fathers Disappeared? Why do so many fathers disengage from their children? It is not because they do not love their children; at least that is not the reason in the vast majority of cases. It appears that fathers disengage, at least in some cases, because the law has made it difficult for them to parent their children. Many fathers complain that the typical visitation arrangement of one evening a week and alternating weekends and holidays does not allow them to be effective and involved parents. They claim that by relegating them to the role of visitor, the law has taken away their parental ...
I believe that fathers disengage from their children, in part, because legal and social norms of fatherhood have made it possible for them to do so. The social and legal norm of post-divorce fatherhood is primarily economic. Nonresidential fathers must pay child support but there is no expectation that they will nurture their children, help raise them, or continue to play a significant role in their lives. In many communities, a father who pays child support is a viewed as a good father even if he does nothing else for his children ...