Friday, May 25, 2007

--Parenting Styles 01--

Hi! I just finished one parenting article.I had divided it into 4 sections and would like to share with you...

Section #1

The Dismissing Parent

-Treats a child's feelings as unimportant or trivial.

-Wants the child's negative emotions to disappear quickly.

-May ignore, ridicule or make light of a child's emotions.

-Believes children's feelings are irrational, and therefore don't count.

-May lack awareness of emotions in self and others.

-Feels uncomfortable, fearful, anxious, annoyed, or overwhelmed by child's emotions.

-Fears being out-of-control emotionally.

-Focuses more on how to get over emotions than on the meaning of the emotion itself.

-Sees the child's emotions as a demand to fix things.

-Believes negative emotions mean the child is not well adjusted, and reflects badly on the parents.

-Believes negative emotions are harmful or toxic.

-Minimizes the child's feelings, downplaying the events that led to the emotion.

-Does not problem-solve with the child; believes that the passage of time will resolve most problems.

Effects on the children


-They learn that thrir feelings are wrong, inappropriate, and not valid.

-They may think that there is something inherently wrong with them because of the way they feel.

-They may have difficulties regulating their own emotions.

I feel it's good to describe nowaday's parents, and what do you think.

I hope this article benefit you as it's benefit me a lot....^_^

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