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Child Development

Child Development. Unit 9 Parenting. Tonja Bolding Lakeside High School. 9.1 Match terms related to parenting. 1. adoptive parent - a person who becomes a parent through a legal process. 2. caregiver - a person that provides care for and meets the needs of someone else.

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Child Development

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  1. Child Development Unit 9 Parenting Tonja Bolding Lakeside High School

  2. 9.1 Match terms related to parenting 1. adoptive parent - a person who becomes a parent through a legal process. 2. caregiver - a person that provides care for and meets the needs of someone else. 3. crisis - an unstable or critical situation in which the outcome will make a decisive difference for better or worse. 4. discipline - training that corrects, molds, and perfects ones actions. 5. latch key child - a child who regularly goes home after school to an empty house or apartment. 6. nurturing - providing love, support, attention, and encouragement. 7. parenting - the process of caring for children and helping them grow and learn. 8. punishment - a penalty inflicted on a child for a violation.

  3. 9. readiness - willingness 10. responsibility - an obligation or duty for which a person is held accountable. 11. rights - special privilege, benefit, or personal favor to which one is entitled. 12. routine - an established procedure. 13. single parent family - occurs as the result of divorce, separation, death or having children outside of marriage. 14. stepparent - a person married to ones parent. 15.stress - physical or psychological tension and strain. 16. teen parent - a teenager who becomes a parent.

  4. 9.2 Name factors to consider when determining parenthood readiness • ready to accept the role as parent • understand needs and how to provide them • willingness to make sacrifices • realistic expectations of parenthood • age (20 yrs-35 yrs) • health (genetic background)

  5. 9.3 List ways parenthood changes lifestyle • couple’s time alone • time spend with child • activities outside the home • friendships • finances

  6. 9.4 Designate challengesassociated with single parents, stepparents, adoptive parents, teen parents, parents of children with disabilities and parents of gifted children Single Parents: • all physical care and guidance • all financial needs • food, clothing, shelter, child care • lack emotional support • need for role model

  7. Step Parents: Adjusting to new lifestyle rules living arrangements more people in the home personalities schedules ways of doing things

  8. Adoptive Parents: Screening process Depends on age of child babies (infant care) children (adjustment to new family) Explanation of adoption circumstances

  9. Teen Parents: complication of pregnancy babies face health risk lack of emotional support lack of financial support isolation from friends possible marriage education goals

  10. Parents of children with disabilities: treat child the same resentment from siblings physical needs emotional needs educational needs financial responsibilities

  11. Parents of gifted children: Meeting educational needs Challenging opportunities Behavior problems Relationships with peers

  12. 9.5 Select rights of children What are the Human Rights of Children and Youth? • Human Rights are universal, and civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights belong to all human beings, including children and young people. Children and youth also enjoy certain human rights specifically linked to their status as minors and to their need for special care and protection. • The human rights of children and youth are explicitly set out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history.

  13. The human rights of children and youth include the following indivisible, interdependent and interrelated human rights: to an adequate standard of living for a child's intellectual, physical, moral, and spiritual development, including adequate food, shelter and clothing. to freedom from discrimination based on age, gender, race, color, language, religion, nationality, ethnicity, or any other status, or on the status of the child's parents. to the highest possible standard of health and to access to health care.

  14. to a healthy and safe environment. to education -- to free and compulsory elementary education, to readily available forms of secondary and higher education, and to freedom from all types of discrimination at all levels of education. to protection from neglectand all types of physical or mental abuse

  15. to protection from economic and sexual exploitation. of the child to express an opinion about plans or decisions affecting his or her life. of the child to live in a family environment. States should provide families with assistance and support if necessary for meeting the fundamental needs of the child.

  16. 9.6 List responsibilities of parents • Support their children • Provide basic needs: food, clothing shelter • Provide medical care • Provide an education • Supervise and control behavior • Parents are responsible for a child’s accidental or intentional injury of others, destruction of property, stealing, truancy, curfew violations • Parents can control as they see fit as long as they do not abuse or neglect the child or as him/her do something illegal

  17. 9.7 Match types of child-care services with correct definitions and select characteristics of quality child-care services Types: • cooperative child care- allows parents to provide many of the services needed for the center to operate. • Head Start- a government sponsored childcare program. • in home child care- a type of care that might involve someone to living in the home (nanny) • play group- provides social activities for children, usually for children of stay at home moms. • privately owned- operated as a business may be educationally based or a “stay and play”

  18. Characteristics of Quality Child Care • trained individuals • cleanliness • organization • safe environment • healthy meals and snacks

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