The Effects Of Trouble At Home

Every parent endeavors success in raising a salubrious and genial child. It’s a natural intuition to expect the best for them. “The children are the future”? “The leaders of tomorrow”? Certainly true. While a considerable amount of people are sanguine with this notion, the majority stresses the condition society is molding for them. Wars and the economy are simple ways of scapegoating these conditions and the mental effects it can have on a child. The modern culture and the media are easier to blame as well. But the psychological development of a child will always begin at home. The results are determined by a child’s behavioral patterns. One of the most common methods a parent use on a child is rewarding them for an expected outcome or set a rule of punishment as motivation for that outcome. Are rewards or punishment a

The most common reason? Trouble at home. Either negligent parents whom have never attempted a relationship with their child or an excessive disciplinary parent. Gerald R. Patterson researched a forcing cycle between a parent and child, when a parent responds erratically to an unruly child with harsh punishment, resulting a greater risk of the child’s behavioral problems later in life (as cited in Byrd, Loeber & Pardini, 128). Troubled parenting behaviors who exhibits these kinds of punishments worsens the child’s mentality and loses the parent’s trust and/or society. After an extensive examination study on convicted psychopaths with troubled childhood pasts, Dadds and Salmon configured their low expression of fear and displayed “passive avoidance learning” (72). The authors’ conclusion indicates they have neglected change to their behaviors to avoid punishment, linking a possible result if the reward-punishment method emphasized the punishment towards children (72). If punishments were consistent the child establishes a setback, afraid to