Psychology Assignment: Positive Parenting and Child Development

This assignment delves into the principles of positive parenting, focusing on the development and behavior of children aged 2-3 years old. It examines the delicate interactions between parents and toddlers, highlighting the importance of affectionate approaches and understanding children's emotional needs. The assignment analyzes a case study of a 2.5-year-old boy, Isaiah, who exhibits behavioral changes due to the arrival of a new sibling, exploring factors such as jealousy, sharing difficulties, and toilet training regressions. It discusses external influences on the child's behavior, including the impact of divided parental attention and the need for supportive family dynamics. The assignment advocates for positive parenting techniques over punitive measures, emphasizing the creation of a supportive environment, and suggests forming localized parenting groups to facilitate interaction, discussion, and shared experiences among parents, fostering a stronger parent-child bond and promoting emotional well-being in children. The assignment also highlights the significance of allowing children to interact with each other and their parents, so that they develop sharing values and build a good bond with their family members.

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Name of the Student
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Response to Question 1
Child of a 2-3 year old have a delicate understanding of their interactions with their parents
and are generally fragile in tackling harsh behavior of their parents. Parents on the other hand
should put up an affectionate position to handle a child who has keenly developing a wide range
of emotions. The child in a tender growing age can only speak only half sentences and are also
unable to comprehend complicated language hence they are only compatible to understand basic
interactions between the their known people. The environment also greatly influence the
behavior of the child who often tends to imitate the persons whom they find distracting or
amusing. A two year children are develop a sense of belonging towards their loved ones and
often get fumigated if they find their loved ones developing a similar kind of affectionate
behavior towards some new individuals (Kim et al., 2013).
Response to question 2
The external factors determining the behavior of the Isaiah, 2 ½ year old boy has a sister,
Hannah, of three months old. His mother Kelly, is engaged in breastfeeding and looking after her
most of the time thus Isaiah is getting a divided attention of her mother. His strange behavior to
pull Hannah while Kelly is breastfeeding her shows an evident trait of developing jealousy
against her sister. His constant tantrums is due to reason that he is devoid of the earlier care and
love taken by her mother when she was pregnant with Hannah. The arrival of new child has
interfered in his personal space which he solely enjoyed earlier. This is made him not to share
anything even with his cousins and hence he is reluctant to share his toys with his cousins.
Despite his toilet training Isaiah has not improved but rather his problem has been aggravating.
This shows his he needs more an affectionate father and mother to spend time with him and to

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inculcate a lovable and amicable feeling for his sister and cousin. The safety considerations that
his whanau need to consider is that it needs to provide a more amicable toilet training and
understand his grudges against every person. A more cordial and fun loving behavior can only
help him to soften his anger outburst thereby inculcating a sharing attitude with him. He should
be allowed to share the toys of others which will trigger him to share his things as well.
Response to Question 3
Positive Parenting is aims to inculcate a discipline in their children in an amicable and
affectionate manner (Daly et al., 2015). Smacking a child of 2-3 year old will aggravate his
behavior more and Isaiah may lose his self-control. He may further cut himself off from his
loved ones like his grandma and his mother. Grandma statement signifies that she was also not
soft like his son and a little smack won’t hurt him. She is perhaps unable to understand his
mental state of mind as smacking him will provoke him further and develop a resistance against
everything. Isaiah might not understand complicated words but he will surely be able to Hannah
and treat her like his baby. He should be allowed to get along with his cousins where he should
use their toys to play so as to enhance his sharing values.
Response to question 4
A planned approach where the localized parenting group should be formed where children
not only children are given avenues to explore and make friends but parents are also allowed to
interact and deliberate their issues and share their experiences. A greater focused should be laid
in training to develop a strong and committed relationship between child and their parents which
helps the child to grow an emotional bond and connect with people easily who love and care for
them. Positive parenting training should be given for appropriate time period so as that the

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children can accept the outsiders in a friendlier manner hence more outgoing and can be trained
easily. Some children also develop certain restrictions in their behavior and are less friendly to
the new people or outsiders who they find intruding in their personal spaces and therefore
reluctant to share their personal games or toys. Generally they show loud bursts of emotion as
the babyishness still persists in their behavior. The emotional aspect of such a young cannot be
calculated and judged as they are still struggling to express their emotions and when they are
misunderstood their emotions take a roller coaster ride to outburst of sudden excitement or
frustration. Hence, a right balanced behavior to make him understand the values of sharing and
caring for her little sister is the need of the hour. He should be allowed to engage him with
Hannah and recall his childhood days.

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References
Daly, M., Bruckhauf, Z., Byrne, J., Pecnik, N., Samms-Vaughan, M., Bray, R., & Margaria, A.
(2015). Family and parenting support: Policy and provision in a global context(No.
innins770).
Kim, P., Mayes, L., Feldman, R., Leckman, J. F., & Swain, J. E. (2013). Early postpartum
parental preoccupation and positive parenting thoughts: Relationship with parent–infant
interaction. Infant Mental Health Journal, 34(2), 104-116.

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