Week 10 – Application Assignment: Parenting Situations happy student

textbook, A Topical Approach to Life-Span Development:
Chapter 14: Families, Lifestyles, and Parenting
Chapter 15: Peers and the Sociocultural World

Week 10 – Application Assignment: Parenting Situations
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This assignment supports the following unit objectives:

Describe some important family processes.
Characterize parenting and how it affects children’s development.
Explain other aspects of family relationships.
Assignment Overview
This application assignment has you focus on common parenting situations.

Deliverables
A Word document in 12-point font, double spacing, APA citations (including a title and reference page), and utilizes paragraph format with complete sentences. This assignment should also respond to the following parenting situations thoroughly and thoughtfully.

Activity Details
Perform the following tasks:

Step 1: Common Parenting Situations
For each of the following case situations, you should present your individual views and reasons for each problem situation. Resolve these problems using a particular parenting style, such as authoritarian, permissive-indulgent, authoritative, and discuss why you chose this parenting style.

Your 9-year-old and your 11-year-old want to play PlayStation games all the time.
The fifth-grade math teacher sends a note home saying that your child rarely does his homework and is easily distracted in class.
Your 10-year-old daughter wants to know why you won’t let her wear makeup, hip-hugging jeans, crop tops, and earrings. She says all her friends do.
You find out that your sixth grader has removed a couple of cans of beer from your refrigerator.
Your third grader and peers seem to delight in sprinkling their conversation with an assortment of swearwords.
Your fourth grader starts to insist that she will wear only certain expensive brands of jeans, shoes, and tops, and they are so expensive that your budget could not afford much.
Your second grader insists he doesn’t need a baby-sitter anymore.
Your sixth grader thinks she is old enough to date and is interested in a ninth-grade guy.

Step 2: Read through your Textbook, Web Resources, and Other Supplemental Resources to Answer the Questions.
As you answer the parenting situations, make sure you utilize paragraph format as well as APA guidelines. If you use references, make sure to cite those as well.

Step 3: Look over your Assignment for Spelling or Grammar Errors.
It is always a good idea to proofread your work prior to submission.