Category: Parents

Today the BBC has reported that TikTok has been fine 186 million won by the Korean Communications Commission for the mishandling of children’s data who are under the age of 14 because TikTok collected data from children without parental consent (BBC, 2020). The standard protocol of companies and governments has been and will continue to…

Being a parent is an almost overwhelming commitment where a childs needs should take precedence over adults needs (Dempsey and Lindsay, 2014). This transition to parenthood is stressful and hard for majority of parents due to this reason, along with parental expectations, ideologies and sacrifices of ones own relationship. Being a parent has its own…

Parents need to develop management skills so that they can meet the responsibilities and the expectations of multiple roles such as, work, study, sport and family. They would be required to use their personal management skills to effectively manage the needs of both themselves and their child. It is necessary that they develop balance and…

There are good parents, great parents and then there are parents that try too hard to be great and actually end up causing more harm than good. You have all probably heard about helicopter parents. They are essentially hovering over their offsprings every footstep, speech and action. Then there are permissive parents who always makes…

Future is a period of time that is to come. (Cambridge Dictionary). Future can be tomorrow, next year or anytime else. Everyone also hope that own will have a bright future. While a child is born, their parents will start to plan their future because they hope their children will have a better future. Planning…

Historically North American households have been characterized by a male breadwinner and a housewife. However, this pattern is becoming increasingly more rare as two-parent working households are three times more likely than they were just twenty years ago (Daniel, 2018 ). For many, this shift stems from the high standard of living or the expenses…

Life with absent parents as a young child is very difficult and has somewhat of an empty feeling to it. Growing up as a young child without a mom and/or dad takes years of putting things back together and figuring out life. It is extremely hard going into adulthood trying to learn and take on…

Historically, most families have always survived on a single source of income. Such was not only comfortable but also common then. However, those days are gone and parents now have to juggle their parental responsibilities and professional life. This is a result of decades of ever-increasing living costs and stagnating pay checks. Recent statistics by…

Annotated Bibliography Cadzow, S. P., Armstrong, K. L., & Fraser, J. A. (1999). Stressed parents with infants: Reassessing physical abuse risk factors. ScienceDirect. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0145213499000630. Cadzow, Armstrong and Fraser (1999) suggest that elevated Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale scores, financial stress, and stress within the family environment are all indicators that increase the risk for…

Being in a different place Have you ever been raised differently either by a single parent like a father or mother? Even just being raised by your grandparents since your parents could be there for you. Many children have been abandoned by their parents or family in terms that they could be there for them…