hdfs 239
- Group exercise: Teaching a parenting class
- Write a short, clear description of an authoritative parent
- How is authoritative parenting defined?
- What kind of child outcomes are associated with authoritative parenting?
- What are key characteristics of authoritative parents?
- Scenarios
- You have made it clear to your 15 year old daughter that there are to be no boys in the house when you are not there. You walk in at 5:00 and find your daughter entwined on the couch with a boy you've never met before. He stammers something about having to go home for dinner, and leaves. You and your daughter are alone.
- Your 13 year old son is having a really hard time with his math homework. He's been working on it for an hour, and it still isn't done. It is close to his bedtime, and you know he still has a poster to finish for social studies and a spelling test to study for. He's tired and frustrated and when you look over his shoulder, you see that the work is very sloppy and he's made lots of careless errors.
- Task (for each)
- Describe some of the issues that you have to think about as a parent before deciding what to do.
- Describe an appropriate response to this situation that an authoritative parent might make.
- Explain why that response exemplifies authoritative parenting.