Parenting With A Purpose
Columnist: Kelly Ramsey, MS
One of the greatest challenges facing families today is parenting children in a chaotic world. This section will share with you research on parenting and raising children in the 21st century. From cradle to college, parents will learn valuable lessons from the children in their homes and community.
Come join us in the journey, as we unfold the skillful art of parenting with purpose.
Stages of Parenthood Part I
Often when we look at a child, we can see them growing, from an infant to a toddler, slowly taking grasp of the world around them. Children are learning the rules of society, how do set and understand boundaries and how to relate with others from watching the adults in their lives. Have you ever identified with a parent when their child has a tantrum in the middle of the store aisle? Of course, you have. We understand the struggle that the parent is experiencing. The child is growing up, and changing, and his needs are changing as well. As the parent watches this metamorphosis of the sweet infant to the screaming toddler, they are experiencing changes as well. This is where the stages of parenthood become evident, and clarity of the developmental stages of children are best understood.
Parenting is a process by which parents and children grow and develop, each influencing the other throughout their lives. Parents move through a series of six stages from pregnancy, when they prepare for parenthood and the birth of their child, to the time when their child leaves home to enter the adult world (Galinsky, 1981). Parents evaluate their progress as the child moves through each of these stages.
Expectations for their child's behavior and development are measured against the child's actual behavior and development; a parent's self-image may shift as he or she moves through the different stages of parenthood. This information is based on Galinsky's interviews with over 200 couples (Galinsky, 1981). For better or for worse, being a parent changes an individual forever.
Galinsky identifies six parental stages as :
· Image-making stage: Pregnancy
· Nurturing stage: Birth to 18-24 Months or Autonomy
· Authoritative stage: Two to four or five years
· Interpretive Stage: Preschool Years through Adolescence
· Interdependent Stage: During adolescence
· Departure Stage
Join us next month for continued discussion of the Stages of Parenthood. We will describe in depth each stage and how developmental stages of children affect our parenting.
Columnist: Kelly Ramsey, MS
One of the greatest challenges facing families today is parenting children in a chaotic world. This section will share with you research on parenting and raising children in the 21st century. From cradle to college, parents will learn valuable lessons from the children in their homes and community.
Come join us in the journey, as we unfold the skillful art of parenting with purpose.
Stages of Parenthood Part I
Often when we look at a child, we can see them growing, from an infant to a toddler, slowly taking grasp of the world around them. Children are learning the rules of society, how do set and understand boundaries and how to relate with others from watching the adults in their lives. Have you ever identified with a parent when their child has a tantrum in the middle of the store aisle? Of course, you have. We understand the struggle that the parent is experiencing. The child is growing up, and changing, and his needs are changing as well. As the parent watches this metamorphosis of the sweet infant to the screaming toddler, they are experiencing changes as well. This is where the stages of parenthood become evident, and clarity of the developmental stages of children are best understood.
Parenting is a process by which parents and children grow and develop, each influencing the other throughout their lives. Parents move through a series of six stages from pregnancy, when they prepare for parenthood and the birth of their child, to the time when their child leaves home to enter the adult world (Galinsky, 1981). Parents evaluate their progress as the child moves through each of these stages.
Expectations for their child's behavior and development are measured against the child's actual behavior and development; a parent's self-image may shift as he or she moves through the different stages of parenthood. This information is based on Galinsky's interviews with over 200 couples (Galinsky, 1981). For better or for worse, being a parent changes an individual forever.
Galinsky identifies six parental stages as :
· Image-making stage: Pregnancy
· Nurturing stage: Birth to 18-24 Months or Autonomy
· Authoritative stage: Two to four or five years
· Interpretive Stage: Preschool Years through Adolescence
· Interdependent Stage: During adolescence
· Departure Stage
Join us next month for continued discussion of the Stages of Parenthood. We will describe in depth each stage and how developmental stages of children affect our parenting.
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