Yun-Ru Lo
During the course of raising my child, I have notice a gradual shift in my child, MiMi’s, personality. She changed from a very active and having difficulty focusing and following rules child to a child who knows when to be active and when to remain calm and is able to focus when needed. One parenting adjustment I made as I raised my child is to shift from a permissive rearing style to authoritative rearing style. Therefore, besides having some spelling and writing difficulties, my child’s personality at age twelve have improved a lot more than I have expected.
I have always wanted to use authoritative child rearing style to raise my children, since according to the textbook, Infants and Children, by Berk, authoritative child-rearing style is “the most successful approach [which] involves high acceptance and involvement, adaptive control techniques, and appropriate autonomy granting” (p. 398). I prefer this child-rearing style because it has a balance of warm and affectionate attitude, but also reasonable and appropriate rules, which let my child know that I love her, but I am not going to spoil her. However, I think I have been too indulgent to my child when she was young, which turns the child-rearing style to a permissive one, which is “warm and accepting… overindulgence… [and] allow children to make many of their own decision at an age when they are not yet capable of doing so” (p. 399). According to B. F. Skinner’s theory, Behaviorism-Operant conditioning, “infant act, or operate, on the environment, and stimuli that follow their behavior change the probability that the behavior will occur again” (p. 180). I believe that my response/the consequences of my child’s action will definitely affect her choice of doing thi...
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...h educational television together to help her improve on her reading and spelling skills.
Overall, I am very satisfied about how my child turns out to be. Although my indulgence cause her misbehavior at first, it is never too late to change my child rearing style and become a affectionate mom who loves my child but also set up firm rules. Furthermore, even though her delays in writing and spelling development do not worries me as much when she is having misbehavior, but I can definitely work with her to improve on that area. Personality development always comes before academic performance, and I am glad my child has become a mature young lady! I am satisfied with the outcome of my virtual parenting experience, and it definitely helps me realize what are my weakness and strengths when raising a child, and it also helps me prepare for future child rearing experience.
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class, it also applies to the styles a family chooses to raise their children. Throughout many different cultures around the world, we find many an array of styles in which parents raise their children. Though one culture might looks at another’s style of raising children as abusive, merciful, manic, or rudimental, these vast differences play a key roll in the success of the children that will go on to mold the worlds societies after we pass. Authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved parenting is three
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