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The Challenges of

Parenting
Do Now: What are some
characteristics of a good parent?
Parenting: A Learning
Process
Parenting: caring for children and helping them
grow and develop
Parents Should
Have reasonable expectations
Develop parenting skills
The Stages of Parenthood
Image making (pregnancy)
Nurturing (Becoming attached Birth-2)
Authority (Determine rules 2-5)
Interpretive (Deciding on values 5-13)
Interdependent (Adolescence; establish boundaries)
Departure (Child leaves home, empty feeling)
The Changes that
Parenthood Brings
New responsibilities and role conflict
Changes in lifestyle (sometimes suddenly)
Emotional adjustments (stop being selfish)
Changes in relationships
Employment
Irreversibility
Making Decisions About
Parenthood
Emotional Maturity
Desire for parenthood
A child cannot create miracles;
saving of marriage, low self-
esteem, attention issues, etc.
Health Considerations
Financial Concerns (can you
afford a child)
MOTHERHOOD
Intensive Mothering Ideology
What mothers ought to
provide:
Full-time attention
Self-sacrificing devotion
Expert guided
Labor-intensive
involvement with the child
Childs needs are more
pressing than those of WHAT MOTHER COULD LIVE UP TO
mothers THIS EVEN IF SHE STAYED AT HOME.
WHAT IF SHE WORKED?
FATHERHOOD
Changes in sexual relations.
Anxiety about abilities, baby,
money.
Witnessing birth is a positive
bonding experience with child.
Nurturing father is able to
participate in all parenting
practices child benefits.
Fatherhood is changing fast.
Some Facts:
WHAT IT of all children will spend
part of their childhood in a
TAKES TO BE father absent home.
32% of all children are born
A FATHER to unmarried women. Among
African American it is 68%.
Children raised in two-parent
families rarely experience
poverty.
Data has linked growing up
without a father to:
Under achievement in school
Mental illness
Drug abuse
Youth suicide
Delinquency
Crime
Parenting Activity
Parenting License
Create Requirements (at least 10)
Income, age, home, car, education, etc.
Create a Test (at least 10 questions)
What courses would you have parents to
take?

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