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When society notices a person and their success it is common to think, “their parents must be proud”. People think this because parents shape their children and help guide them into the life they choose. The same thought process is thought about a naughty or misguided child. When looking at a child that is inappropriate or peculiar in their actions, people tend to think that their parents are uninvolved or involved in the wrong ways. The way that a parent treats and guides their children has a direct outcome on their child's success as an adult.


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There are many different ways to analyze the way a parents takes care of their child, but it is hard to know the right way that a parent should guide their child. Psychometric Properties of the Training Parenting Style Psychometric Properties of the Training Parenting Style is an article that elaborates on parenting styles and how they affect children’s outcomes. Within this article the authors describe parenting styles as “a constellation of attitudes toward the child that are communicated to the child and that, taken together, create an emotional climate in which the parents’ behaviors are expressed’’ (Ang etc al.).  A child learns how to act and communicate with people based on this environment that their parents set up for them.  The mind of a child is fresh and ready to accept the advice of their parents and the way parents go about their demeanor affects their child future.

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Stein, Stephanie and Lillian J. Breckenridge. "Parenting Styles."  Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health , 2013. EBSCO host , proxy.kennesaw.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ers&AN=93872135&site=eds-live&scope=site. Pinquart, Martin. "Associations of Parenting Dimensions and Styles with Externalizing Problems of Children and Adolescents: An Updated Meta-Analysis."  Developmental Psychology , vol. 53, no. 5, May 2017, pp. 873-932. EBSCO host , doi:10.1037/dev0000295. Ang, Chin-Siang, et al. "Psychometric Properties of the Training Parenting Style Scale in a Malaysian Sample of Adolescents: Factor Analysis, Internal Consistency, and Measurement Invariance."  Journal of Child and Family Studies , vol. 25, no. 5, May 2016, pp. 1505-1514. EBSCO host , doi:10.1007/s10826-015-0333-1. Prevoo, Mariëlle JL and Catherine S Tamis-LeMonda. "Parenting and Globalization in Western Countries: Explain...
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Poor Upbringing

Unfortunately there can be factors that affects a parent’s involvement with their children that are out of the parent’s control. In low income families it can be hard to give a child every thing that they might need.  Research in Pathways to Adaptive Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents from Low-Income Families proves the strong correlation between a child’s upbringing and development. Within this article, authors emphasize, “active parental emotion socialization efforts may be especially critical among adolescents from low-income families” (Criss, Michael M.1, et al.). The parent’s role in a child’s success is far more impactful to a child of a low income family. A child that has grown up poor has less of a chance in gaining success. Parents of a low income family have to push their children to achieve more than they think they are capable of because those parents were never able to gain success. It is hard for a child to believe that they can achieve their goals because of t...
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