What is Parenting?

Parenting/Child DevelopmentMrs. Wagner

Parenting - providing care, support, and love that leads to a child’s total development

• Parenthood – father or mother• Caregiver – person who loves, cares for

and guides a child• Examples:• Who needs parenting skills?

Basic Skills Physical Care

- Examples?• Nurturing – support and encourage

- attention, love, sense of security- Need to know someone cares about them

• Guidance – words and actions that adults use to influence children’s behaviors- Right & Wrong- Emotional & Social skill

Write a description of a caregiver you have had and explain how they fulfilled the three essential elements of parenting (Physical, Nurturing & Guidance).

Importance of Parenting Education begins at birth Children learn about themselves Form child’s self-concept – image of

oneself Self-Esteem – a person’s opinion, belie or

judgment about one’s worthiness – Feelings about yourself

A good parent needs a positive self-concept and self-esteem

Both begin in infancy

Parents can shape and mold a child by? How – build self-esteem and self-concept?

Types of Parenthood Biological Parent – one of two people who

conceive a child (birth parents) Adoptive – Legally raising a child as your

own. Have all legal rights as biological. Step-Parent – person whose spouse has

children from an earlier relationship

Foster Parent – provides care in time of emergency. Selected by agencies and receive payment

Legal Guardianship – appointed by courts – usually after death of parents to close relatives