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Outcomes of Parenting
May 12, 2010
Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives.
-Thomas Berry
Supporting Parenting, a publication of the Open University in the United Kingdom, funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, is a global overview of policies and practices in providing support to parents.  The publication contends that the quality of parent-child relationships is significantly associated with...
  • Leaning skills and educational achievements.  Children's reading ability is associated with the reading environment around them and there is evidence that parental involvement with school is associated with achievement.
  • Social competence.  Parental warmth, lack of conflict, and control and monitoring appear to play an important role in developing children's social skills.
  • Children's own views of themselves — including their sense of self-worth.
  • Aggressive 'externalizing' behavior and delinquency.  The more extreme the circumstances for parents, the worse the outcomes for children and the likelihood of psychological disturbance.
  • Depression, anxiety, and other 'internalising' problems — include complaints where physical symptoms are related to emotional stress and social withdrawal.
  • High-risk health behaviours — such as smoking, illicit drug use, alcohol use, sexually risky behaviour, and obesity.


 
One of the challenges of working with young children is finding ways of working effectively with their families.  In How Does it Feel? Child Care from Families' Perspectives, author Anne Stonehouse challenges the reader to look at situations in an early childhood program from families’ perspectives.  Encouraging programs to move beyond traditional parent and family involvement, this recently updated version of the book contains insights on what it takes to create and maintain effective partnerships that benefit young children the most.

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