How to Understand Your Child’s Feelings

By Lorins Sidney

Raising a happy, healthy child is one of the most challenging jobs a parent can have -- and also one of the most rewarding.  Yet many don't approach parenting with the same focus used for a job.

You may act on your gut reactions or just use the same parenting techniques your own parents used, whether or not these were effective parenting skills.

This book is a groundbreaking guide to raising responsible, capable and happy kids. Get yourself a copy

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sidney Lorins
• Release date: Sep 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9791220846035

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Contents

Introduction

The 4 types of Parent Styles and the Effect They Have on Kids

Parenting in an Authoritative way: 12 tips

Educate Kids About Why and How to Say Sorry

Reprimanding your Children: the Mistakes Parents Make

Your Communication with Your Child Matters

Why Your Child Doesn't Listen to You.

Introduction

Children are raised by their parents with protection and care so that they can develop comfortably and effectively into adulthood.

Importance

The long-standing assumption that parents exercise a direct and powerful influence on their children through the socialization process has permeated research and theory of human development, as have most cultural belief systems. If the children are well, it is the parents' honor. if they end badly, it's the parents' fault.

This assumption has been questioned by researchers who emphasize the biological impact on children's development. For example, behavioral genetic research shows that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adoptive parents with basic characteristics such as personality, intelligence, and mental health. Further, some researchers argue that peer relationships, such as relationships with siblings, play a strong role in development.

Researchers who study the importance of parenting emphasize several things. First, genetic and socializing influences in biologically related families are difficult to distinguish. For example, a child with musical talent may have inherited that tendency from parents who are also musically gifted. The same parents would probably emphasize music at home, which makes it difficult to determine if the musical child is a product of genetics, environment, or (probably) both working together. If, on the other hand, the child is adopted and raised by parents who are not musically inclined, the expression of that talent can take a different form or be actively suppressed. For example, genetic predispositions (strengths and vulnerabilities) are often modified by experiences created by parents.

Second, the flow of influence between parents and children is two-way rather than one-way (e.g. from parent to child). An impatient parent can make a child react anxiously, but a child who is constitutionally exposed to stress can provoke impatience in the parent. Regardless of who initiated the chain of events, parents and children often get caught up in escalating cycles