Child Rearing Practices and Parenting Styles: Interviews with Different Parents

This report discusses child rearing practices and parenting styles through interviews with different parents. It emphasizes the importance of discipline, self-learning skills, and family relationships in raising children. The report also highlights the differences between child rearing practices in the 70s and today.

EDUCATIONAL
SOCIOLOGY

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
Parent 1............................................................................................................................................1
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?..................................................................1
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?................................................................................2
Parent 2............................................................................................................................................2
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?..................................................................2
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?................................................................................3
Parent 3............................................................................................................................................3
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?..................................................................3
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?................................................................................3
Parent 4............................................................................................................................................4
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?..................................................................4
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Child rearing practice refers to practices involved in parenting ways of upbringing and
raising their children from birth through adulthood. This is an innate process which comprises
processes of nurturing, protecting, guiding, and rearing of children through their developmental
stages. This process up raising children promotes and aids physical, emotional, social,and
intelligence development from infancy to adulthood. Back in the 70s, most of the parents of
Maldives were on the 'free range' array where they did not know where their children are after
they had their breakfast. Parenting in children today is much different than it was back in 70s.
When kids were being raised in 70s, there was no such practice of designated parenting style.
With this information, there were no parenting style that were following to bring up their
children (Amponsah and et. al., 2018). They did not analyse, prescribe, and define each and
every inclination with effective life living and maintaining good living practices. In this report,
issuances related to parenting will be discussed by interviewing different parents and learning
their opinions about parenting.
TASK
Parent 1
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?
In 70s, parents were not designated In their lifestyles so therefore children's upbringing were
affected. Parents used to let their children out to play and socialise themselves in their society or
community. Children were taught and treated with guidance to self training to habits related with
eating, sleeping, communicating to other people. The children were given freedom to learn
things that would foster their upbringing and bring responsibilities related to their lifestyles.
They were respectful towards people around them. They were honest, and maintained their
discipline wherever they were at. On the contrary, nowadays children are more advanced and
they most of the time don't listen to their parents. There are many factors which hinders the
upbringing of children (Dalikeni, 2021). Firstly, children are very intelligent they tend to learn
things quickly and they are not sometimes honest to their parents. They don't treat their siblings,
parents and their relatives rights.
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How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?
Back in 70s, people believed more in socialising themselves, they were more intended towards
their lifestyles and they tend to teach discipline to their children by teaching them learn the
practices involved with being their own kind. Parents freed their children in socialising to their
society. Children used to learn and grasp things slowly but they were intended more on learning
things alone. They used to watch and learn habits related to eating, sleeping ways and
communicating to their surrounding people etc. Children were more close to their immediate
family members like parents, siblings, and close relatives. Nowadays, being a parent, it is a
difficult challenge to raise children with quality life lessons and behaviours. Sometimes, parents
needs to be strict to their children as they don't follow their parent's advices and suggestion that
would benefit their lifestyles. Being rational could help them foster their life living habits and
challenges that would foster their discipline. Family sometimes, don't see with suggestions and
life lessons that is made by parents, so they tend to disagree on certain points. Children's
behaviour is dependent on their mood and they tend to learn things easily when they are provided
with freedom and right guidances (Fargion, 2021). Teaching them good skills towards life living
is the main challenge in child rearing parents are the prime assets that set their children's life
effectively and with fecundity.
Parent 2
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?
In Maldives, children younger than 18 years of age were living with two parents during 70s. And
they learned to socialise with effective upbringing within their learning age. For both men and
women, life was not just revolving around married life and children, there was also more of
conveniences as technologies were introduced. Children were taught to live with dignity and they
were guided about initial sense of self training such as eating, sleeping, and communicating.
Children learn to eat gradually by holding spoon with their fingers,this aids in developing sense
of self learning. Child rearing involves interaction with lots of people at different stages of their
lives which also shows their social compatibilities. They tend to live happily within their family
members are not affected by external surroundings. Earlier, children respected their parent's
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views and followed their guidance efforts but nowadays children are not interested in listening to
their parents even though they are for their goodness (Miconi and et. al., 2018).
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?
As a parent, teaching children with good skills and behaviours is the key to happy life ahead .
Children should be treated in a right way so that they respond respectfully and give more respect
to their parents and people around them. Family and relatives sometimes don't agree to decisions
that are taken but later they understand the processes of leading of rearing of children.
Disciplining children on the basis of their skills and ability to grasp knowledge and information
is more of a crucial disciplinary strategies to foster their learnings. Making them do things on
their own makes my family little sceptical as they would harm themselves is a fear within the
family members but later this behaviour fosters their development positively.
Parent 3
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?
Earlier parents gave more emphasis on bringing up their children which was carried out without
any means of technology but nowadays parent are more intended towards technologies that have
made their practices of parenting more easy and effective (Sandberg, 2019). Learning comprises
responsibilities and this brings forth children's knowledge that fosters their knowledge of life
living. Accordingly they are more disciplined and they intend themselves and are intended more
easily towards social and this ultimately fosters their social growth. Children are expert in visual
learning and by seeing their parents they earn a lot many things. When children are disciplined
they do activities accordingly and this brings forth their positive qualities among their
surrounding. Mother plays an important role in raising child as mother is always there to support
her child and father supports with giving strength to live life confidently (Murovhi and et. al.,
2018)..
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?
As parents, children are restricted towards strictness so maintaining a good balanced strict life
styles and abiding by to them is the main purpose of family members. Being rational towards
children is more effective as this idea brings their abilities to learn things and behave in a manner
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that will foster their development. So strictness in child rearing is also important as this is the key
to their effective growth and development. And taking advantages and privileges of visual
learning fosters their growth with advancements in technological learning. Children's behaviour
is based on their upbringing and parenting styles which is prime asset in their physical mental
and emotional growth, so children should be provided with more of positive learning that fosters
their living styles and their overall growth.
Parent 4
Which standards of behaviour are important to you?
For a positive lifestyles, as parents, children should be allowed to prioritize their area of comfort
in learnings related to their growth and development (Torlesse & Raju, 2018). The primary role
of family is to give them freedom of speech, right to choose their means of life living so that they
can come up with ideas that are associated with their activities. Children should be given
freedom to socialise themselves to community and society that will foster their roles and
responsibilities. Earlier during 70s, parents were not that aware of their rights and how to
effectively raise their children so that they could bring in good habits and good skills. But now,
they are little sceptical about their children's growth within the society as this brings forth more
of responsibilities within them. Initial skills and habits related to socialising and sensing abilities
to learn little things and aids children in exploring more into the world of learnings. Mutual
relationships in families is an essential part as relationship among family members affects
children's rearing and their interests in communicating more with their siblings, mother and
father. Social relationship is crucial within children because this enhances their abilities to
interaction among society and community which will aid their learning effectively.
How do you discipline your children? Has your family agreed on methods of discipline and
expectations for your children's behaviour?
Discipline brings behavioural actions within individuals and this is the key aspect in leading to a
healthy lifestyle. In case of child rearing, discipline is an important aspect as with discipline
children are more responsible towards their actions and related pros and consequences. Children
are more influential and are easy target to exploitation. With this information, they are at
sceptical stages which can easily affect their upbringing. Parents are very crucial asset in
providing them information and proper guidance on living their life with effective outcome that
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would foster their disciplinary lifestyles. As parents, children should be provided with guidances
that are going to foster and enhance their learning skills. They should be made to mend things
and situations on their own as this will accomplish their servings in disciplinary activities.
Family goes side by side with children, when children are not feeling something right, it's
parent's foremost duty to guide them with extra comfort and give them extra attention while they
are facing any situations which are not their control. Over-socializing can also impact children's
life so they should be taken taken with more emphasis on this aspect of their rearing. When they
are not guided properly with self training to aid themselves in eating habits, keeping themselves
clean, communication skills, they tend to learn unnecessary things which is not productive to
their lifestyles (Zahir and et. al., 2020). Good skills to their children's activities are key factors
that aid them lead their lives. Behaviour is crucial as this brings forth the idea of maintaining
disciplinary activities. And ultimately family is playing a major role in child rearing and this
should be done on every aspect to maintain their discipline within group of people or when they
are not around anyone. Strictness goes side by side in abiding by to discipline. Family
relationship with children are also important as this fosters their life upbringing in an effective
and healthy manner.
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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be conferred that child rearing is the process of methods
and ways that involves in raising and upbringing children. In Maldives, parents used to free their
children and then children used to exploit themselves in several ways by not abiding by to their
disciplinary activities. Children are the prime assets of any society or community within the
nation. So with this they should be given extra attention to foster themselves into this world. In
this report, there were various roles of parents discussed via conduction of interviews among
some parents. Parents should be compatible with their children so that they share their views on
conditions and situations they are going through. Their self learning skills and habits related to
eating, sleeping, and communicating skills are elevated through good child rearing. Mother and
father are the major assets in child rearing so they should be well organised to foster their
children's upbringing.
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