Parenting can be a challenge the first time around, but many parents are finding themselves parenting for a second time, this time around, as the child’s grandparents. Grandparents may assume the role of parent for their child’s children when there are problems of substance abuse, abuse and neglect, incarceration, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, divorce, and death. (Dolbin-MacNab, 2006, p.1) Grandparents usually are not expecting to have to parent again, this is the time most are enjoying their new found freedom. They expect to have a freedom to choose what they want to do, come and go as they please without the responsibility of another human being. Due to the many years they have not been parents, many grandparent will need to be educated on the recent changes to being parents. Some of the areas may include: child development, newly discovered childhood disorders such as ADHD or ADD, depression, and conduct disorders. (Dolbin-MacNab, 2006, p.2) In many instances the grandparents will shape their parenting of their grandchildren by how they raised their own children and where they are now socioeconomically. (Dolbin-MacNab, 2006, p.3) Many of the grandparents interviewed for this study described the feeling of “personal satisfaction” as they tried to do things differently with the raising of their grandchildren than they did with their own children. For this study, fifty-two grandparents and their grandchildren were recruited to participate. Of the fifty-two, forty-one also consented to an interview. (Dolbin-MacNab, 2006, p.3) The criteria to participate in the study was: “grandparents had to meet the United States Census Bureau (2002) definition of a grandparent caregiver, grandparents were required to have a legal relationship to th... ... middle of paper ... ... Learning Theory, the adolescent may only be acting out what they have learned from their environment. The social worker will need to determine the cause of the feelings and actions and work with the adolescent to change not only the behavior but their cognitive thinking as well. Works Cited Ashford, J., & Lecroy, C. (2013). Human behavior in the social environment. (Fifth ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. (p. 99, 596-597) Cooley, S., Deitch, I., Harper, M., Hinrichsen, G., Lopez, M., & Molinari, V. (1998). What practioners should know about working with older adults. American Psychological Association, Retrieved from http://www.nova.edu/gec/forms/practitioners_older_adults.pdf Dolbin-MacNab, M. L. (2006). Just Like Raising Your Own? Grandmothers’ Perceptions of Parenting a Second Time Around. Family Relations, 55(5), 564-575. doi:10.1111/j.1741-3729.2006.00426.x
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What is a family without a parent? A good parent has the image of a provider. Parent is the one that meets all the material needs of the household. The one who worries that nothing lacks to his/her children. Works double shifts and weekends. A good parent has not yet met the present needs, when others have been created; he/she wears out feverishly. But yet he/ she still have time to have the unique experience of seeing the children grow. Having children is a major life-course event no matter what country people live. Children alter how men and women live and how they can allocate their time. Money is required to support children, and there is also more to do in the households with children. Historically, women have done the extra work chil-dren create. Who engenders ch...
A parent’s parenting styles are as diverse as the world we live in today. Nowadays, parents only want what is best for their children and their parenting styles plays a crucial role in the development of children which will in the long run, not only effect the child’s childhood years, but later prolong into their adult life as well.
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Growing up, two group of people, parents, and grandparents, took the time and the energy to raise me. Both of them had different approaches when raising me. These approaches were different parenting styles. According to Baumrind, parenting style was the “[capturing] normal variations in parents’ attempts to control and socialize their children” (Darling, 1999). To put it simply, parenting style goal was to lecture, influence, and discipline a child. In general, there are four parenting styles with their own specific benefits and disadvantages. Furthermore, parenting style, granted the dynamic of the family was understood, can be identified in families.
Older adults are a very knowledgeable population and have had a lot of life experiences. As people age, things start to change physically, mentally, and socially. It’s important to understand the process of aging, so that older adults can be taken care of properly. I interviewed P.R. who is a 71-year-old male that lives alone in his home. P.R. is a retired coal miner, and is currently living off his social security and savings. He lives close to both his daughter and son, who frequently help him out with things that are needed. P.R. was able to give me a lot of insight about specific challenges that he has experienced in his life that is associated with aging. I will be discussing challenges that P.R experienced physically, mentally,
Families are becoming more diverse and they come in all shapes and sizes. Some people consider families to be strictly biological, while others consider people they love to be their family. Although two-parent families are the majority, one-parent families are becoming more common in today’s society. A sole-parent is considered to be a parent without a partner or spouse who is the primary care giver of one or more children in a household (Ministry of Social Development, 2010). From the age of 14 onward I was raised by my father. I witnessed firsthand th...
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Middle-age adults experience Ageism on a regular basis. Counselors may encounter many cases where middle-age adults have experienced Ageism (discrimination). (Wong 2015). Younger counselors may need to explore their own bias attitudes towards working with middle-aged adults to better prepare themselves for working with middle-aged clients who have experienced Ageism. It is imperative that counselors be able to identify how Ageism can affect the individual emotionally and socially. By doing this, they serve as an advocate for middle-aged adults who experience Ageism. Due to the depth of the changes that mature-aged individuals, (job seekers), experience, they require more time with caseworkers to overcome certain barriers to employment. Training implications should be put in place to help diversify the mature-aged adult’s skills. This would expand the individual qualifications. As a result, making job-searching easier for them. Also, this approach can help alleviate some of the stereotypes and bias attitudes that people have toward the mature-aged group. As stated by Boswell 2012, Prior studies have linked poor knowledge of aging to negative attitudes and emotions about Aging. Researchers impose that there should be more education about Aging. Increasing knowledge on Ageism may result in the creation of successful intervention programs. It can also increase the younger generation
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Grandmothers Perceptions of Parenting a Second Time Around”, Grandmothers felt, “more confident, believed they were better parents, and derived more enjoyment from parenting [as a grandparent]” (Dolbin-MacNab, 567). They also say that they feel that, “their increased wisdom allowed them to avoid mistakes they made with their children, parent with less trail and error, and follow their instincts” (Doblin-MacNab, 567). This leads me to the first question that I asked my grandma; What did you learn from yourself the first time around? My grandma said, “I learned that you have to let somethings go, little things won’t matter in the long run. When I was older I realized that kids are not perfect, which lead to better behavior
Frequently alluded to as a crucial element in childrearing practice, the adoption of a specific parenting style has shown to have significant implications on the developmental outcomes of a child. With the integration of parental demandingness and responsiveness (Arnett, 2016), Baumrind has conceptualized four individual parenting styles, categorizing individuals as either authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, or disengaged parents. Each style exhibits a separate level of control and warmth that parents demonstrate in relation to their children, as well as personal and societal beliefs that may affect an individual 's preference for one child rearing practice over another (Arnett, 2016). As a common parenting style
No matter how many times you’ve raised children, it never gets easier the second time, especially when it’s grandchildren that they have to take in. There are many reasons that grandparents may be called upon to step up and raise grandchildren. There are also many positive and negative effects of grandparents raising their grandchildren.