This often creates a frustrating situation within the home, as children and parents may clash over these ideas.
Of course, cultural issues are not the only differences in parenting in the United States. Phegley (2009) states that parents can easily identify what they want in their relationships with their children -- they wan the best. The best, she argues, "is entirely up to an individual's perception" (para. 2). Thus, parents often have different styles of parenting. These differences are often based upon differences in views about authority, respect, rewards, punishments, formalities, etc. While some argue that differences in parenting styles can benefit children, they can also become a source of tension within the family (Phegley, 2009). Because of this parents who have different styles of parenting might actually harm their children though fighting with each other about the best ways to parent. Thus, parenting styles in the United States further…...

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References

Child Help. (2009). "National Child Abuse Statistics." Retrieved April 5, 2009, from Child Help. Web Site: http://www.childhelpusa.org/resources/learning-center/statistics

Child Trends Data Bank. (2008, Summer). Family Structure. Retrieved April 5, 2009,

from the Child Trend Databank. Web Site:  http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/59FamilyStructure.cfm 

Educator Support Network. (2007). Healthy and Unhealthy Cultures at Work. Retrieved April 5, 2009, from the Educators Support Network. Web Site: http://www.educatorsupportnetwork.com/files/Healthy%20and%20unhealthy%20cultures%20at%20work.pdf

Understanding others is crucial to developing empathy; that is, knowing how others feel about things. Compassion comes when empathy develops. Young children can learn to identify feelings by looking at pictures that reveal happiness, anger, sadness, etc. The parent or caregiver can point these out and also comment on the child's feelings as they arise. "You look sad. Is it because you have to stop playing and take a nap now?" natural structure for socialization and formation of good character is the story. Children need exposure to stories with moral messages -- in books, video, and from a parent's own life. When I was 12 I read a book called "The Secret Garden" that was full of good ideas for development of moral character. These ideas were not "preachy-teachy" but built into the fabric of the story. Young children still love "The Little Engine that Could," and the lesson…...

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References

Elkind, D. (1998). Reinventing childhood: Raising and educating children in a changing world. Rosemont, NJ: Modern Learning Press.

Graeber, L. (1998). Raising smart kids. Parents, 73 (5), 134-6. Retrieved on 8 April 2008 from Wilson Select Database.

O'Rourke, T.W. (1996). Raising children in a socially toxic environment. Journal of School Health, 66 (5), 193-95. Retrieved 7 April 2008 from InfoTrac Psychology Collection, Gale Library.

Slater, L. (2002). Raising a good-hearted child. Parenting, 16 (10), 88-90, 93-4. Retrieved 8 April 2008 from Wilson Select Database.

Yet warm, trusting relationships with adults are required if moral and spiritual guidance is to be reclaimed. (167)
The church is perhaps the only institution with the beliefs, literature, liturgy, practices, social structure and authority (diminished though it be) necessary to rescue children from the violence and other deforming features of late 20th-century life. But it cannot accomplish this by simply laying the faith before young people and inviting them to choose it.

Furthermore, the pulpit offers perhaps the only remaining locus of personal and public edification and exhortation. (166)

Prayer is crucial. t teaches children to reflect on their own lives and on the world around them. t provides breathing space from the overstimulation of our society. Attending to how to pray and for whom to pray trains children to focus on the welfare of others and on world events.

Prayerbooks are wonderful resources; they contain prayers for travelers, for those far…...

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If you mold her completely in this way, you will save not only her but also the husband who will marry her, not only the husband but also the children, not only the children but also the grandchildren. For when the root becomes good, the shoots are outstretched toward what is better, and for all these you will receive the reward. Therefore, let us do all things so as to help not one soul alone, but many through the one (494).

Harrison, Nonna Verna. Raising Them Right: Early Christian Approaches To Child Rearing

Theology Today 56 no 4 Ja 2000, p 481-494. 2000

raising children in single parent homes and dual parent homes. The writer explores the differences and the similarities between the two homes and uses three sources to identify each category.
Children in Dual Parent and Single Parent Homes

In today's world there are as many children living in homes of single parents as there are children living in homes with two parents. It has become so commonplace that it is not unusual to hear questions such as "Does your dad live with you?" Or "Are your parents divorced"? As a normal part of daily conversation. There have been numerous studies done on the effects of being raised in a single parent home and being raised in a dual parent home. Many differences between the two settings have been discovered and many similarities have also been noted. The one thing experts agree on is that they are not one and the same.

The…...

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Works Cited

Author not available. "Single Parent Adoption: What You Need to Know." Contemporary Women's Issues Database, (1994): January. pp 5-10.

Peters, Cynthia. "A Bewildering Nostalgia for the '50s Family. Vol. 24, Contemporary Women's Issues Database."(1998): December, pp 33-34.

Renkl, Margaret. "The Single-Mom Boom their numbers are growing fast, and their future's looking bright." Baby Talk, (2000): October, pp 68+.

Responsible for Raising Children
ho's Responsible for Raising Children's Children?

High school day care centers criminalize our Society

Each year majority of the teenage girls are becoming pregnant. Majority of the high schools have observed this statistic and therefore they are trying to introduce day care facility for the babies. Teen pregnancy is something which should not be promoted while on the other hand facilitating young girls by providing day care facility is going to harm the social structure of the society. High schools are there to provide quality education to the children. Introduction of day care facility in the high school will deviate the management of school from their ultimate objective. Some people argue that the day care facility is good for working women since day care centers help them in solving the problem of accommodating children while they are at the work. These mothers should also realize the fact that majority…...

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Works Cited

Aviezer, Ora, Abraham Sagi, and Marinus Van Ijzendoorn. "Balancing the Family and the Collective in Raising Children: Why Communal Sleeping in Kibbutzim Was Predestined to End." Family Process 41.3 (2002): 435+. Questia. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Crim, Courtney. "Raising the Creative Child." Parenting for High Potential June 2006: 26+. Questia. Web. 17 Nov. 2011.

"Elium, Jeanne, & Elium, Don. Raising a Teenager: Parents and the Nurturing of a Responsible Teen." Adolescence 42.168 (2007): 861+. Questia. Web. 17 Nov. 2011.

Kramer, Rita. In Defense of the Family: Raising Children in America Today. New York: Basic Books, 1983. Questia. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Child Guidance
The Watertown (MA) Family Network creates a community for mothers who may not have anyone to ask questions about their infants and toddlers. As the video's narrator stated, "There are no roadmaps to raising children." With the Network, which is free and provides resources such as a new mom support group, parents do not need to feel as if they are all alone with this rewarding, but challenging, job of raising a child.

Epstein (2009) suggests there are five types of family engagement: childrearing, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, and representing other families. A comprehensive family involvement plan can be developed by choosing several of these types.

In the church-based childcare center where I worked, as with the Watertown Network, staff helped parents who had questions about what they should do at home. This center was in a military community where many young mothers were away from their own mothers and…...

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References

Grisham-Brown, J., Hallam, R., and Brookshire, R. (2006). Using authentic assessment to evidence children's progress toward early learning standards. Early Childhood Education Journal 34(1), pp. 45-51.

Kostelnik, M.J., Soderman, A.K., and Whiren, A.P. (2011). Developmentally appropriate curriculum: Best practices in early childhood education. Boston: Pearson.

Mueller, J. (2011). Authentic assessment toolbox. Retrieved from http://jfmueller.faculty

.noctrl.edu/toolbox/whatisit.htm

There are no suggestions from him on how these boys, their mother, and their five siblings can turn their lives around without simply expecting the government to intervene. And what about their mother? How can a woman have seven children with a drug addict and not realize at some point that she herself is condemning her children to a life of poverty, violence and constant struggle? Of course she wants her children to have the same things as any child deserves to have - a safe, happy childhood where there's always enough to eat and they don't have to worry about ducking their heads whenever they play outdoors - but what has she done to make that happen? Kotlowitz does nothing to address these questions or point the finger of blame at the parents of Lafayette, Pharaoh and their siblings for being a large part of the problem in…...

children cannot help but notice about certain unusual behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physical traits and wonder if they are "normal." The puzzle of human development has been a popular area of study and, as a result, there is a wealth of theories striving to understand the many twists and turns of maturation. rik rikson, a developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst; Jean Piaget, a Swiss biologist and Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist, put forth three of the most well-known theories on aspects of human development.
rikson believed humans went through eight distinct physical and emotional developmental periods called "psychosocial stages." In each stage rikson proposed that humans confront a task or dilemma and that their ability to address each challenge would further define their personality and abilities. The stages correspond to specific physical stages and are as follows: Trust vs. Mistrust (infancy), Autonomy vs. Shame (toddler), Initiative vs. Guilt (preschool), Industry vs.…...

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Erickson, E.H. (1972). Eight ages of man. In C.S. Lavatelli & F. Stendler (Eds.), Readings to child behavior and child development. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Piaget, J. (1929). The child's concept of the world. New York: Harcourt, Brace.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1997). Educational psychology. Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press

Non-Traditional Parenting
The main point of the article, "Moms at ork and Dads at Home: Children's Evaluations of Parental Roles," is that when children are given a chance to express their opinions on traditional vs. non-traditional roles, they speak up. In this case, the children used in the survey (67 second-graders and 54 fifth-graders) saw it as "acceptable for both mothers and fathers to work full-time" (Sinno, et al., 2009). However, children found it not as acceptable for fathers to be stay-at-home parents as it is for mothers to be stay-at-home parents. Clearly, 2nd graders were "more likely to rely on ... stereotype knowledge of appropriate roles" (mom home, dad at work), and when dad was the key child-rearing parent it became a non-traditional family. http://abcnews.go.com/NT/story?id=130760&page=1. (This is an ABC News report on the growing trend of fathers raising children.)

Another non-traditional family is the Foster Care family. According to the Journal…...

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Works Cited

Sinno, S.M., and Killen, M. (2009) Moms at Work and Dads at Home: Children's

Evaluations of Parental Roles. Applied Developmental Science, 13(1), 16-29.

Tyler, K.A., and Melander, L.A. (2010). Foster Care Placement, Poor Parenting, and Negative Outcomes Among Homeless Young Adults. Journal of Child and Family

Studies, volume 19, 787-794.

Child Poverty and Its Effects on Education and Development
Beyond problems of financial inequality that occur when countless young children reside in poor as well as persistently inadequate households, poor children can easily perpetuate the never-ending cycle when they achieve adulthood. Prior study implies that children who're born poor as well as are constantly poor are considerably much more most likely to remain poor as grownups, quit school, give teenage premarital births, and also have spotty employment details than all those not very poor at birth (atcliffe and McKernan 2010). This previous research focused on the earliest cohort of youngsters reviewed here-children born in between 1967 and 1974 as well as who turned Thirty amid 1997 and 2004. An important query is whether or not this link has endured with time. Even though information aren't accessible to see outcomes via age 30 for children born within the subsequent two cohort groups…...

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References

Duncan, Greg, W. Jean Yeung, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Judith Smith. 1998. "How Much Does Childhood Poverty Affect the Life Chances of Children?" American Sociological Review 63(3): 406 -- 23.

Ratcliffe, Caroline, and Signe-Mary McKernan. 2010. "Childhood Poverty Persistence: Facts and Consequences." Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

Ratcliffe, Caroline, and Signe-Mary McKernan. 2012. "Child Poverty and Its Lasting Consequence." Washington, DC: Urban Institute

Vericker, Tracy, Jennifer Macomber, and Olivia Golden. 2010. "Infants of Depressed Mothers Living in Poverty: Opportunities to Identify and Serve." Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson

The Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon, a researcher and psychology professor at Harvard who is also practicing psychotherapist specializing in boys and Michael Thompson, a child psychologist, workshop leader, and staff psychologist of an all-boys school. Both are Ph.Ds and two of the country's foremost child psychologists. In this book they have very successfully shared the experience of what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of mutual experience working with boys and their families.

The book is an important and a fascinating read to all boys and their families. Both authors have been convincing in their argument that for boys it would be good if they become more 'emotionally literate,' in order to comprehend their own feelings as well as of others. The valuable and insightful proposal given by these writers would be…...

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Work Cited

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Ph.d Kindlon, Michael Ph.d

Thompson. Ballantine Reader's Circle. www.enotalone.com

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Ph.d Kindlon, Michael Ph.d

Thompson. The Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace. www.peace.ca

Gradually, there are lesser desired adoptive kids as society have come to accept single mother who parent their children compared to earlier. The disgrace of giving birth to a child outside marriage has lowered and hence, the bulk of single moms prefer to have their kids with them in place of "relinquishing them" for being adopted. Besides, thanks to advanced technology, "birth control" pills are instantly accessible to the fertile populace, and, as abortion has been legalized, a pregnancy which is unplanned could be stopped. A new dimension to the problem has emerged because of the decrease in the supply of desirable adoptable infants and the rising infertility among Americans. (Infant Adoption is Big Business in America)
It is anticipated that out of every six couples, one couple has problems in conceiving and total infertile couples may number 5.3 million. A lot of adopters who are presently desirous of adoption…...

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References

Adoption is big business: Rationalizations for Adoption. http://www.adoption-articles.com/adoption_business.htm

Adoption: The Child Commodities Market is Big Business.  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/224728/adoption_the_child_commodities_market.html?page=2 

Avery, Rosemary. J. Adoption Policy and Special Needs Children. Auburn. Westport: CT.

Cahn, Naomi R; Hollinger, Joan Heifetz. Families by Law: An Adoption Reader. New York

" Does the child show impulsiveness, or have problems transitioning from one activity to another activity, or seem rigid and inflexible at times? Moreover, are there signs of carelessness or clumsiness -- and is the child uncomfortable while involved with group situations? All of these behaviors in this paragraph are signs that SI dysfunction may be part of the problem, the authors assert.
And there are several more that the authors point to -- including when a kid has a big problem handling frustration, when he can't smoothly transition from an active state to a "calm, rested state" -- but just because one or more of these behaviors are apparent that doesn't automatically mean the child has SI dysfunction. "Lots of kids show these signs for lots of reasons," the authors explain. And some of the behaviors are quite "appropriate at certain ages" because "most toddlers are pretty impulsive" (note the…...

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Works Cited

Biel, Lindsey, and Peske, Nancy K. (2005). Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The

Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child With Sensory Processing Issues.

New York: Penguin Books.

Children's Literature - Hardy Boys and Encyclopedia Brown
The Shore oad Mystery

On page 12 of The Shore oad Mystery there is moment of potential stress between brothers Joe and Frank, and their Aunt Gertude, over the boys' bad move of tracking in dirt on mother's freshly vacuumed carpet. In any family, boys (and fathers) especially are prone to forget to take their shoes off (in the winter it's snow and ice; in the spring, summer and fall, it's dirt, mud, and leaves). "Frank and Joe! Look at yourselves!" their aunt barked out. And when Joe compliments his aunt of the aroma of food cooking, she urges him not to "change the subject" (a ploy boys are quite adept at), but soon she sees Joe's skinned arm and bruised forehead and notices Frank's limp (the result of the accident), and her tone changes.

The brothers loved their aunt and knew that beneath her…...

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References

Dixon, Franklin W. The Shore Road Mystery. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1964.

Sobol, Donald J. Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Sleeping Dog. New York:

Delacorte Press, 1998.

I.'s friends, Dot and Glen arrive to visit with their out of control kid and bad parenting habits. The couple are exaggerated in their ineptitude by their wardrobe and actions; Dot is the "trailer trashy" woman, and her equally trailer-trashy, beer guzzling husband, Glen, who ignores his own child, as does Dot, and the child runs wild. These behaviors and the scene is one that many young parents who have a better command and control over their lives and children can relate to. In this parody comedy, it is amusing and helps deflect the reality of the experience of real life, but it is nonetheless one which is easy to relate to having had.
As often is the case, art mirrors life and we find that once children arrive, life changes for couples in ways in which they perhaps never anticipated. Suddenly, Dot and Glen are not the best company for…...

Title: Unveiling the Tapestry of Cultural Diversity: Exploring How the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary

Introduction:
In the intricate tapestry of human existence, there lies a kaleidoscope of cultures, each with its unique customs, beliefs, and practices. What may seem ordinary and mundane to one individual can be extraordinary and fascinating to another. This essay delves into the captivating realm of cultural diversity, examining how the typical and familiar can transform into the different and unusual when viewed through the lens of contrasting cultural perspectives. By exploring real-life examples and insightful anecdotes, we will uncover the beauty and significance of embracing cultural differences and....

1. A Journey of Strength and Perseverance: Overcoming the Fear of Being a Single Parent

2. Embracing Solo Parenthood: Conquering the Fear and Finding Joy

3. Breaking Free from Fear: Thriving as a Single Parent

4. Rising Above the Odds: Confronting the Fear of Single Parenthood

5. Learning to Walk Alone: Overcoming the Fear of Raising a Child without a Partner

6. Triumphing over Solo Parenthood: A Tale of Fearlessness and Growth

7. From Fear to Empowerment: Overcoming the Stigma of Single Parenthood

8. Overcoming the Fear Gap: Thriving as a Single Parent in a Couple-Oriented Society

9. Embracing Single Parenthood: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Strength

10. Facing....

1. Financial strain: Single parents often struggle to make ends meet as they are responsible for the sole financial support of their family. This can lead to stress, anxiety, and difficulty providing for their children's needs.

2. Lack of support: Single parents may feel isolated and overwhelmed by the demands of parenting without the support of a partner. They may also lack access to resources and services that could help them navigate parenting challenges.

3. Balancing work and caregiving responsibilities: Single parents often face challenges balancing their work responsibilities with their caregiving duties. This can lead to feelings of guilt and exhaustion,....

Navigating Single Motherhood for Black Women: Raising Sons in Contemporary Society
Raising children as a single parent is a complex undertaking, especially for women of color. Single black women face unique challenges in navigating the complexities of childcare, economic disparities, and social stigmas while fostering the healthy development of their sons.
Economic Challenges
Financial instability is a significant hurdle for single black mothers. According to the National Urban League, black women earn only 63 cents for every dollar earned by white men. This income gap contributes to poverty, housing insecurity, and limited access to quality education and healthcare for their children. Single mothers....