Parenting 101 (2024)

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What does parenting 101 mean? ›

A place to build parenting skills that help parents to discipline kids. from toddlers to teens as well as to encourage children and adolescents to feel positive about themselves and to become the winners they were meant to be.

4 P's Strategy

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents and caregivers use a 4-part strategy when helping their children develop social skills: Practice, Praise, Point out, and Prompt. These four steps can be used when adults notice that a child needs to work on a particular social skill.

The Four Cs are Choices, Consequences, Consistency and Compassion, and each is as important as the next, and none can be left out of effective parenting.

Following this rule with your kids can lead to happier parent-child relationships. Aim for sharing positive feedback and reinforcement at least 5 times for every 1 demand or criticism you make. We often don't realize as parents how many demands we make of our children in short periods of time.

1-2-3 Magic divides the parenting responsibilities into three straightforward tasks: controlling negative behavior, encouraging good behavior, and strengthening the child-parent relationship. The program seeks to encourage gentle, but firm, discipline without arguing, yelling, or spanking.

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The 3 F's are: Firm- Set rules and guidelines at home and exercise them regularly and follow them too. Fairly- Deviation from rules calls for a punishment or penalty which is to be announced in advance and has to be a fair deal so keep your words and do not make changes.

The pillars are: primary care and protection, making close relationships, positive self- perception, emotional competence, self-management skills, resilience, a sense of belonging and personal and social responsibility.

Gentle parenting means you choose to set clear boundaries and underline what you are asking of your child. Limit your request to focus on the action you do want to encourage. Demands not to touch something can be communicated by saying things like "Let's use gentle hands on this" or even "This one is just for looking".

What is the most effective parenting style? ›

Authoritative (also known as balanced) parenting is widely regarded as the most effective style because it provides kids with both security and support. However, incorporating permissive or authoritarian elements into a balanced approach can be useful when parenting a child with atypical needs.

Free-range parenting is essentially the opposite of helicopter parenting. Free-range parents give their children a great deal more freedom and independence in contrast to what they perceive as the current tendency toward overprotection and overparenting among parents.

To summarize, the 7 habits are as follows: (1) Be proactive rather than reactive; (2) Establish a written family mission statement and written family values; (3) Make family your top priority; (4) Try to create "win-win" scenarios; (5) Seek first to understand, then to be understood; (6) "Synergize", or put all of ...

Uninvolved parenting, sometimes referred to as neglectful parenting, is a style characterized by a lack of responsiveness to a child's needs. Uninvolved parents make few to no demands of their children and they are often indifferent, dismissive, or even completely neglectful.

A parent code is a randomly-assigned sequence of letters and numbers used by teachers and schools to get parents connected to their children's artwork.

Children who are considered legal adults (age 18 in most states) may always refuse to spend time with a parent. Technically, any child who is not yet a legal adult isn't allowed to refuse visitation.

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