FRHD 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parenting Styles, Social Skills, Motor Skill

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: David Green

Document Summary

Quest for comeptence: encouragment, instrumental support, acknowledgment of progress, direct assistance. Encouragement of sports, hobbies, and/or art based activities: uniqueness of children. Social skills important during middle childhood: parent influence development behaviours, parenting styles contributes relationships with peers. Mentally able to share greater social power. Perception of parental availability: parents to met attachment needs and peers to meet companionship needs, less secure parental attachment = peers to fulfill attachment functions. Communities with low incidents of crime and parental enjoyment of social support: fewer parenting challenges, generally better outcome of children. More physical discipline in pooper and more dangerous environments. Parental structuring of children"s out of home leisure time. Positive peer group organizations: extends children"s peer group interactions beyond the classroom, provides opportunities for children to develop friendships with children from a variety of cultures. Ensuring children"s safety to and from activities in economically impoverished neighbourhoods.