PSYC 3560H Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Critical Role, Endorphins, White Matter
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Influences on what parents learned in their own childhood/ shape how they parent. 40% of parents use magazines, websites, books and television shows as their research on child development and parenting. Skenazy wrote about how she allows her 9 year old son to take the subway alone. She encourages parents to teach their children how to be safe in the world: ms. chua"s- wrote about how she parented her daughtersone parenting style will not work for all kids. She began very strict and eventually relaxed more overtime. Apart from the 18th century life was difficult for children. There was no conception of childhood as separate from adulthood. Pu(cid:374)ish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)as harsh a(cid:374)d desig(cid:374)ed to (cid:271)reak the (cid:272)hild"s (cid:449)ill. *** the farther you go back in history the less people cared about children. Egypt, greece, rome history: infanticidal mode (killing an infant) and abandoning mode (abandoned: much like our own, recognized stages of childhood, infancy, early childhood, youth, adolescence.