Felix Bett

 Children Misbehave When Unsupervised Title Name Institution Children Misbehave When Unsupervised A child’s Behavior is as a result of care or attention he or she is given. In the family context, the cognitions of the parent and child are reviewed on their linkage to behavior and effect, their origin, their perpetuation and transmission, their collaborative negotiation, and their alteration by first-hand experience which is from their parents. Shared and individual patterns of behavior due to the cognition of family members results in a positive outcome in a Childs behavior. However, many limitations need to be handled in consideration of a Childs behavior molding. For example, there is a limited review of shared influences of the parent’s cognitions and the child’s perceptions which need an urgent outlook for family problem prevention when it comes to children behavior. Our task is to uncover whether the conduct of a child gets determined by the level of attention given by the parent. Various articles have captured the children behavior molding concerning environments in given excerpts. To start with “understanding preemptive parenting: relations with Toddlers Misbehavior, over reactive and lax discipline, and praise.” An article written by Dowling, Carey Bernini; Smith Slep, Amy M.; O'Leary, and Susan, is an article that determines the effect of preventive parenting. It displays there major things that include overeactive discipline, lax discipline, and recognition. The report shows the relations among the preemptive parenting including the strategies the parents can use before a child misbehaves so as to avoid or prevent child’s behaviors that are undesirable (Dowling, Carey Bernini; Smith Slep, Amy O'Leary, Susan 2009). This article is very relevant in our question because it focuses on how children can misbehave through observation of the parenting styles. Also, the author seemed to ask an almost similar issue because the article examines the praise and dysfunctional behavior which tries to bring out an argument on whether children misbehave when unmonitored. In the article, forty mother-toddler dyads are interacted in a normal media laboratory to draw out discipline and misbehavior. The report indicates the use of observation data that finally illustrates that a child’s behavior could be predicted through preemptive parenting. However, dysfunctional regulation and commend did not add up to the forecast of a mothers’ reported action harms that were externalizing (Dowling, p855). The article further illustrates that the relationship between over reactive and preemptive parenting determine a child’s behavior, not lax. The difference of the study done according to the article with ours is, in our case, we are using observation without intervention. Also, we are trying to examine the parenting style that is natural since our aim is to determine whether a child’s behavior can be defined by the attention given to him or her by the parent. For the case in the article, they are using observation with intervention for they are trying to observe the mother’s reaction after eliciting behavior to a child. After the study, it was evidenced that more preemptive mothers were a lax and less overactive with the kids who did not misbehave much. Also, these mothers did not congradulate their children either. This study fits in indirect observation with structured observations because it clearly brings out the aspect of the influence of the proactive parenting to a child’s behavior which also applies to ours since, we are concerned on how the parents affect the behavior of a child. Secondly, the article that is similar to our topic in question is the "parenting efficacy, alleged to manage over the failure of caregiving and mother’s reaction to preschools children’s behavior”. The article was written in 1999 by Bondy, Eloise M., Mash, and Eric J. The articles, study is similar to ours because, in the article, they were examining the efficacy in parenting, the perceived control over care giving failure and a mother’s attribution, efficient and inattentive disciplinary reaction. Also, the article illustrates the assessment of oppositional-defiant and hypereactive-impulsive misbehaviors, as reported by parents. They found out that perceived control over failure and parenting efficacy may be cognitive constructs that are not related, and mothers significantly discriminate inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive behaviors. These means that mothers with little parenting efficacy displayed a greater likelihood of employing coercive discipline, while mothers with relatively considerable efficacy, were considered to regard their children capable of handling their behaviors (Bondy, Eloise, Mash, Eric J 1999). Since the study focuses on how parents view their ability to control the behavior of their children, it is therefore significant and more similar to our case and it makes it proactive and applicable to our study. In the article, there is the use of questionnaires which means the mode of study differs with ours because we are using non-obstructive observation. Also the study according to the article majored in looking at how the child’s behavior was affected by their self efficacy-perception. Finally, the third article by senzaki, Masuda,Takada and Okada, “the communication of culturally dominant modes of attention from parents to children: a comparison of Canadian and Japanese parent-child conversations during a joint scene description”, relates to our research question because, in the study done in this article, there are two experiments done on how parents and their young children used exclusive attention modes in their culture. The expected result in these tests was that the experience gained by the children from the continuous association with their parents would lead to the progress of such attention models (p 9). However in contrary, the outcome established that the children did not exhibit cross-cultural differences that were significant inattention during the task of scene description but again the results confirmed the presence of signs of ethnically exclusive attention modes during the site description work when working alone (Senzaki, Masuda, Takada, Okada 2016). The difference in this experiment with ours is, we are trying to measure the child’s behavior about the attention he or she gets from the parents. For the case in the article, they are trying to see how the attentiveness of children gets built by using parental cross-cultural aspect and how different cultures contribute to the attentiveness of children’s (p 25). Also, according to the article, the testing environment was a laboratory that applied indirect observation in a controlled environment, while in our case we are using it is direct observation in an open environment In a nutshell, the above studies illustrate the relationship between the child and the parent. The behavior of a child is optimally affected by the parents care or attention he or she gets. In the first article reviewed, it is clear that children can misbehave through observation of the parenting styles. According to the second article, it illustrated that control over failure and parenting efficacy may be cognitive constructs that affect the behavior of a child. Finally, the last article proofed that modes of attention given to children by parents to a greater extent affect their behavior. All these are critical and of great magnitude in our research because they profoundly relate to our point in question about the relationship between the child and parent. References Senzaki S, Masuda T, Takada A, Okada H (2016) The Communication of Culturally Dominant Modes of Attention from Parents to Children: A Comparison of Canadian and Japanese Parent-Child Conversations during a Joint Scene Description Task, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p1-20. 20p. Bondy, Eloise M., Mash, Eric J (1999). Parenting efficacy, perceived control over caregiving failure, and mothers' reactions to preschool children's misbehavior. Child Study Journal ,Vol. 29, Issue Dowling, Carey Bernini; Smith Slep, Amy M.; O'Leary, Susan G (2009). Understanding Preemptive Parenting: Relations With Toddlers' Misbehavior, Overreactive and Lax Discipline, and Praise. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Vol. 38 Issue 6, p850-857. 8p.