Stacy Wilcox
PSYC1323 02
Prof. A. Caruso
Feb 19, 2013
Parenting Situations
1. Your 9-year-old and your 11-year-old want to play video games all the time.
I would make a schedule with them which allows them to play video games after
school till dinner. I’d be using authoritative parenting style.
2. The fifth-grade math teacher sends a note home saying that your child rarely does
his homework and is easily distracted in class.
I would talk to my child and let them know their teacher called and what was said.
Then ask my child what’s going on that this is happening. I would be using authoritative
parenting style.
3. Your 10-year-old daughter wants to know why you won’t let her wear makeup,
nylons, and earrings. She says all her friends do.
I would ask her the age old question “if your friends jumped off a bridge would
u?” and teach her to be an individual, a leader and show her that she doesn’t need to
do what everyone else is doing. I would be using authoritative parenting style.
4. You find out that your sixth-grader has removed a couple of cans of beer from our
refrigerator.
My child would probably end up grounded, and having a nice long talk about how
stealing is bad and how they are too young to be drinking and the consequences of both
with the law. I believe I would be using an authoritative parenting style.
5. Your third-grader and peers seem to delight in sprinkling their conversation with an
assortment of swearwords.
I would definately take away their tv or games system until their behavior stopped
and make sure to have a detailed discussion on how inappropriate that is. I would b
showing a authoritative parenting style.
6. Your fourth-grader starts to insist that she will only wear certain expensive brands of
jeans, shoes, and tops; they are so expensive that your budget could not afford very
much.
I would be very straightforward and tell her I cannot afford those clothes, and that
she will have to do with the clothes I can afford to buy until she is old enough to have a
job and buy her own clothes. In this situation I would be showing an authoritarian
parenting style.
7. Your second-grader insists he doesn’t need a baby-sitter anymore.
I would be explaining to my child that they are not old enough to stay home
alone, and try to come up with something else they can do to feel grown up like help
with like taking the dog for a walk alone. I would be using authoritative parenting
style.
8. Your fifth-grader thinks she is old enough to date and is interested in a seventhgrade boy.
There’s not too much I would be able to do about her having interest in a seventh
grader, but I can talk with her about how she feels and start having the talks about
puberty, feelings and sex. I have to make sure to keep those lines of communication
open with her as she gets older so she makes the right decisions. I would be using
an authoritative parenting style.