Parenting Young Children

Exploring the Internet, Television, Play, and Reading

Paris S. Strom, Robert D. Strom, Robert D. Strom, Paris S. Strom

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781607523260
  9781607523277
• eBook ISBN:
  9781607523284
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

Parents feel that a fast-paced lifestyle requires constant hurry to complete the next task and causes them to lose control over how time is spent. This environment makes it more difficult to build relationships with their children and teach them to honor priorities, care about others, maintain health, manage conflicts, and achieve balance. Our cross-cultural studies of families have found that the most important gift parents can give their children is spending time together. Being together without multitasking or other interruptions increases sharing, in depth conversations, learning, and closeness. This book shows how to prepare children for school by providing the following experiences. • Parents have a new obligation, introducing their children to the Internet. Parent and child Internet visits are presented for each chapter with guidelines for teaching online. • Parents and children spend more time watching television together than doing other things. Conversation questions are provided as a tool that parents can use to find out how children interpret events they see and detect learning needs. • Children will more likely become creative adults if they receive support for imagination and curiosity. Examples illustrate the merits of playing alone, playing with friends, and pretending with parents. • Boys and girls like bedtime stories and are motivated to read when they see parents read for pleasure. Children's books that are recommended for discussion reinforce values parents hope to convey. • Parents are responsible for teaching foundation lessons about socialization. Methods are described to foster development of child self-control, getting along with others, managing fears, and setting goals. • Parents benefit from feedback on how well their goals and practices reflect principles of child development. A parent self-evaluation form includes questions and answers to identify personal strengths and learning needs. This book is for parents, grandparents, and other educators of young children ages 3 to 8.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Parenting Young Children
• Lifespan Learning
• Parenting Young Children : Exploring the Internet, Television, Play, and Reading
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I TEACHING AND LEARNING
• PART II: FRUSTRATIONS AND FEARS
• PART III: SELF-CONTROL AND DECISION MAKING
• PART IV: PLAY AND IMAGINATION
• PART V : CREATIVITY AND CURIOSITY
• PARENT GOALS: How Did I Do?
• REFERENCES