PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Parenting Styles, Language Development, Joint Custody

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2500
• Professor: Monique Senechal

Document Summary

Intermediate amount of ontrol: parents set reasonable standards for behaviour, expec children to meet them, monitor behaviour, 4 styles of parenting, 1) authoritarian parenting, combines high control with little warmth, hard work, respect, and obedience cultivated in. Interrupts childs ongoing activity: time in, alternative method in which child is not isolated bu given attentions focused on the problem behaviour, adult talks with the child immediately, to help them understand the situation and their own feelings. Limit one anothers participation in parenting: work, parents leading stressful work live , parent less effectively, withdraw from family interactions, appearance that parent is detached and disinterested, makes children anxious and upset. Less satisfaction with life, more likely to become depressed: how they are less effected, second year, when parent cooperate with each other. European decent: adopted child syndrome (myth, adopted children more prone to behavioural problems, substance use and criminal activity because of challenged they face in establishing unique identity.