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The relationship between parents and their children is forever changing, starting as soon as birth takes place – this is when strong bonds of attachment are formed and parents endeavour to meet the needs of their baby.
By the time children are two years old the relationship starts to change as parents start to educate children, guide them in the directions and also start to discipline them.
Parents think about their capability of setting limits for their children and start to implement rules and boundaries, while also providing enough freedom for their children to grow and develop, enabling them to discover themselves and understand how to have a positive self identity.
From pre-school age through to adolescence parents start to teach their children about life and help them make sense of the actions of other people, such as their friends/peers and teachers.
Parents also help their children to understand that there will be consequences to their own actions.
During adolescence the relationship between parents and their children continues to change. Parents involve their children in more decisions, giving them greater responsibility and helping them to become completely independent, while still supporting and protecting their children too.
A relationship is thought to be interdependent when there are strong connections and shared power between two people. Parents’ behaviour, thoughts and emotions rely upon those of their children, their reactions matter to each other.
Interdependent also means that parents and children have shared ambitions as well as separate ambitions that will clash with each other. Because of this, parents and their children will feel stronger emotions when they interact, work together a greater amount but also have more frequent arguments than people who do not have a close relationship.
The parent-child relationship is important and individual. Parents and children have past, present and future relationships that keep changing as the parent and the child develop and learn from each other.
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