Lucas Harrison College Sociology Jenifer Stevens February 10‚ 2013 Applied Sociology and Your Family The applying applied sociology into your family topic appealed to me for many reasons. As a parent I constantly worry about the affect my parenting choices will have on my daughter. I always second guess my decisions and often wonder if she thinks I am a good mother. I want to do right by my daughter by making sure she is getting what she needs from me‚ in order to have a healthy self-esteem
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appropriate and beneficial for society’s well being. Parents strive to ensure that their children are successful in their efforts‚ both personally and socially. They stand tall‚ maintaining positive and nurturing attitudes. Good parents with effective parenting skills continually create important‚ life lessons because they understand‚ that as youth‚ children look to them for guidance. Parents pave the way for young people to build a bright future. They teach skills to their children so that they are able
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Mackenzie Cooper English 1010 Essay #2 "Deadly Parenting" I am a firm believer that parents should be parents and not friends. When this "friendship" occurs some parents take it to the extreme. Judith Warner states in "Helicopter Parenting Turns Deadly" that parents of teenagers should not act like teenagers‚ dress like teenagers‚ or talk like teenagers. Parents should behave like the grown-ups they are presumed to be‚ not adolescents. When it comes down to it being a helicopter parent‚ parents
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Generation gap: Your Generation is different from your parents’ generation? Any two generations have differences to a certain degree. Due to the effects of the advances in technology and globalization‚ the generation gap between parent and child is much broader in comparison with the gaps of earlier generation. The older generations were more concerned of priorities that were family oriented; however‚ the concerns of today are for the advancement of one’s career. The busy lives of parents today
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“Most theories about families suggest that families should not only have flexible‚ clear boundaries with the outside world‚ but they must also have well-established intergenerational boundaries. In other words‚ the parents should be partners in parenting the children” (Collins et al‚ 2013. p. 61). Simply put‚ parents should play an
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Throughout the United States‚ more than one-third of children don’t live with their biological fathers‚ and about 17 million of those children don’t live with any father at all. Of those‚ roughly 40 percent haven’t seen their fathers in the last year. The over 500 Father’s Rights organizations are trying in a variety of ways to change these statistics because they believe that fathers are necessary to the intellectual‚ psychological and emotional well- being of all children. "Family values" groups
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overprotective parenting created a generation of "cotton wool‚" kids so removed from risk and adversity that they are left incapable of dealing with the social and physical demands of adult life?" The number of socially and physically incapable children in New Zealand society is rapidly growing. The overprotective and politically correct parents of these children have been influenced by the media‚ through television coverage of the danger in their surrounding communities‚ and the parenting advice that
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through my mind. What kind of parent will I be? How will I raise a child? Can I be a good parent? What turns ordinary people into good parents? Panic overtook me and I felt an overwhelming desire to rush to the local bookstore to purchase loads of parenting books and magazines to learn how to become a good parent or call to my mom. But‚ after thorough thinking I looked at the problem with fresh mind. First of all it’s quite normal to wonder how good a parent you are. Perhaps you’re worried that going
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in a democracy and in a democratic family. Discipline is an essential part of parenting and self development. There is an emphasis on cognitive behavioural approaches to change‚ because if we choose our behaviour to meet certain goals we can change that behaviour if it no longer suits us. Our philosophy therefore is a very optimistic one. Parenting skills based upon these concepts are mostly regarded as positive parenting or cooperative discipline and often described as an authoritative approach.
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