CFD 1220 Lecture 24: Parenting

• School: UCM
• Department: Child and Family Development
• Course: CFD 1220
• Professor: Jaimee L.Hartenstein

Document Summary

Autonomy: sense of oneself as separate, self-governing individual, emotional: Relying more on oneself, less on parents: behavioral: Making decisions by weighing one"s own judgment and others" suggestions. Effective parenting strikes balance between connection and separation. Engage in democratic decision making and verbal give-and-take. Reorganized parent child relationship: parent child relationship quality predicts mental health in adolescence, mild conflict facilitates adolescent identity and autonomy, drop in family time is not universal, depends on culture. Family circumstances: less than 10% of families with adolescents have seriously troubled relationships, teenagers who develop well despite family stress benefit from factors that foster resilience in earlier years. Siblings: older siblings have less influence on younger siblings, attachment between siblings usually remains strong, sibling ties vary with gender and culture, warm adolescent sibling relationships contribute to more gratifying friendships. Most important characteristics of friendship are: intimacy (psychological closeness), mutual understanding, loyalty.