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Please write a discussion post about provided topic down below in Red. The question you have to answer is down below1- 4. Please use the provided sources and do this discussion post in APA style format. Please read the instructions all the way through and properly before you start this discussion post. And please follow the instructions. I also provide an example about this discussion post how other student did this post so you can check it out. Please do not copy from other student post because you can do better than this student discussion. That’s only for you to see how I want this discussion. Please do it accordingly.
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Parental Involvement Discussion
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Calarco, J. M. (2018). ‘Free range’ parenting’s unfair double standard: When poorer mothers and fathers let their children play unsupervised, they come under suspicion. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/04/free-range-parenting/557051/.
What Kind Of Parent Are You? The Debate Over ‘Free-Range’ Parenting
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The Carpenter Vs. The Gardener: Two Models Of Modern Parenting
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- Consider the following questions to get the discussion started. Think about a 6-year old child. How much parental involvement is necessary on the following activities and why: play activities, peers, TV content, TV time, computer content, computer time, distance from home when outside? What if the child were 12 years of age? Does the gender of the child change your views on their freedom and parental involvement?
- You do not need to address all of the questions listed above. Focus on the ones that you have a strong opinion about or that you are most interested in discussing. Your initial post should be 700-800 words in length.
- Make sure to explain your opinion using evidence from the book and other sources. Your analysis should include 2 or more sources (textbook or other sources) in APA style.
- Spell-check and thoroughly edit your posts/responses.
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Parental Involvement Discussion
Whether a child is 6 or 12 years old, male or female, I believe that 100% parental involvement is necessary during play activities and peers. I believe that this is necessary in order to keep a child safe. As for when it comes to TV time and computer time, I think it should be allowed whenever a child has finished their homework. As for the content of these matters, I think that a parent should be aware of what their child is watching or doing online. The gender of the child does not change my views on their freedom or parental involvement because a child is a child and they need to be supervised. In addition, I know some parents that give more free range to their son rather than their daughter, leaving the daughter to feel that it is completely unfair and in favor of the son. I do not think that parents should, or even let alone have the time, to monitor every single movement of their child, but they can at least watch them and look over their shoulder to see that their child is safe and doing well. When it comes to distance from home when outside, children should not be outside whatsoever, if their parent is not outside to watch them. These beliefs stem from the world that we live in today.
In a NPR (2015) podcast, there was story about a mother and father named Danielle and Alexander Meitiv, who let their 6 year-old and 10 year-old daughter walk to the park a mile away without any parental supervision. Two mothers, Katie Arnold and Derene Millner, who both blog about parenting had two different comments on this story. Arnold said that she liked the idea of children being able to be out and free, but Millner stated, “It took me a while to trust that other people won’t bother my children.” In my opinion, the extremely sad thing is that you do not know if other people are going to bother your children. I completely disagree with the Meitivs’ decision to allow their two young daughters to have been able to do this. With the neighborhood that I grew up living in is not safe for a child to be walking out alone day or night. Personally, although I am not a parent, it scares me to think about how my future children, or any children today could be outside without a parent present. Growing up, I was under the constant supervision of my parents and I was never allowed to go out of the house unless it was for high school sports. Some people may disagree with this, but I always knew that they did this for my safety and I would rather be safe than sorry.
In a different podcast by Vedantam (2018), he interviews Alison Gopnik about her latest book The Gardener and The Carrpenter, which is about two different parenting styles. Gopnik goes into detail about how the carpenter parenting approach entails that the parent attempts to control all aspects in their child’s life in hopes of molding the child into a certain kind of adult, leaving the parent and child both anxious and unhappy. The gardener parenting approach means letting the parent have the child be free to do what they please and learn in that manner encouraging the child to readily respond to their surroundings. I disagree with the gardener approach to parenting because I think that children need to be watched to ensure that they are safe instead of letting them be free to do whatever they please. I also disagree with the carpenter approach because I don’t think that a parent should be controlling every aspect of their child’s life, but they should be supervising them to ensure they are on a good path. I think that a parent should start to ease up a bit more on the amount they are watching their child when they are 16 to 17 years old. Then, as a result, when the child is 18, the parent can trust that they did all they could on their end and believe their child will be safe and fit to make good decisions.
Works Cited
Staff, N. P. R. (2015, April 26). What Kind Of Parent Are You? The Debate Over ‘Free-Range’ Parenting. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2015/04/26/402226053/what-kind-of-parent-are-you-the-debate-over-free-range-parenting.
Vedantam, S., & Cohen, R. (2018, May 29). The Carpenter Vs. The Gardener: Two Models Of Modern Parenting. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/614054515/the-carpenter-vs-the-gardener-two-models-of-modern-parenting.
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Discussion on Parental Involvement in Child Raising
Parental involvement in raising their kids is more than just watching over them. It is a process that entails the promotion of the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual growth of a child. Additionally, it embroils the development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Notably, parenting or parental involvement in raising their children has no connection with the biological relationship between the parent and the child. Therefore, this case study seeks to express how much a parent should be involved in their children’s engagements.
As long as a child is under eighteen years of age, whether 6-years old or 12-years old, I believe that it’s the parents’ responsibility to ensure their security and protection, including what they consume that enables them to become responsible adults. Therefore, I am confident that parents are responsible for dictating when their kids should watch television. More specifically, for a 6-year old child, the parents should ultimately choose the content of the TV. Additionally, parents should dictate the time their children should operate computers or electronic gadgets. Consequently, they should also be wholly involved in monitoring the content of access to ensure that they consume the right content. Furthermore, it is crucial for parents to limit or control how far their kids should be from the house. However, this limitation should vary with age to accommodate the child’s growth and interaction with the external environment. Moreover, how much parents should be involved should be irrespective of gender since all children are susceptible to any danger across gender.
Therefore, I find it irresponsible and reckless for a parent to all a six-year-old kid to walk on their way home from a park, especially for the first time. For instance, it was not very careful for the parents – Danielle and Alexander – to have left their children – 6-years and 10-years – walk home (National Public Radio, 2015). These children would have encountered any danger on their way home while parents are unaware, thanks to the Samaritan reporter and the police. Consequently, I’m afraid I have to disagree with their opinion of free-range parenting, that they want to instill self-reliance and independence on their children. However, I believe that though, self-reliance and independence is vital for children, it should be practiced gradually. They ought to have monitored them from far to ensure their security and protection from any danger that may have found them on their away. Therefore, parents should teach their children how to protect themselves from a threat before letting them range freely without their supervision or watch.
Consequently, I tend to agree with Millner’s general opinion that it was somehow too much to leave a 6-year and 10-year old to walk home from the park for an hour without a parental watch. Additionally, I concurred with the opinion that parenting is all about the kids and not the parents. As such, parents should balance their needs to make their children independent by watching over them for some time. For instance, allowing the kids to ride bicycles within the park as their parents are watching. Once they are comfortable, they can be left to ride home but with close monitoring. However, I can’t entirely agree with Arnold’s opinion on the issue. He believes that it is okay to leave kids to walk home on their own without being monitored. It is ridiculous how he will protect his kids in a situation of danger.
More importantly, I would recommend a combination of the two parenting models – the Gardener and the Carpenter. A proper parenting model would incorporate a bit of the gardener model and a bit of the carpenter model. The recommendation is because the gardener model allows children to be free to do whatever pleases them and in a manner that they like to enable the response to the environment (Vedantam & Cohen, 2018). To some extent, it is important to let children free and interact with their environment. However, every parent wants the best for their kids hence controls how they behave. The disagreement is where the carpenter model comes in. It allows parents to instill manners and sense into their kids and enables them to mold their kids in responsible adults.
In conclusion, parents need to monitor when their kids have access to both the television and the computer or electronic gadgets. Additionally, parents should monitor the content that their kids access both on televisions and electronics. Moreover, irrespective of gender, the parents must monitor their kids, especially on the streets. Therefore, I agree with the carpenter model of parenting, with a bit blend of gardener model.
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Staff, N. P. R. (2015, April 26). What Kind Of Parent Are You? The Debate Over ‘Free-Range’ Parenting. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2015/04/26/402226053/what-kind-of-parent-are-you-the-debate-over-free-range-parenting. Vedantam, S., & Cohen, R. (2018, May 29). The Carpenter Vs. The Gardener: Two Models Of Modern Parenting. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2018/05/28/614054515/the-carpenter-vs-the-gardener-two-models-of-modern-parenting.
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