Assignment

1. Describe one aspect of your child's behavior that is problematic and what can you do to change this?

2. Did your family need to use daycare? What type of daycare did you use? Why?

3. What type of physical activities have you and your child been engaged in?

4. How would you describe your child's personality? Over controlled, undercontrolled or resilient.

5. How smart is your child and in what areas does he or she excel? Have there been any signs of dyslexia, hyperactivity or in attention? This information can be found in your report cards and psychological reports.

6. How did you handle the incident with the dog or pet? What was the result in terms of your child's emotional development?

7. Have there been any changes in the relationship between you and your partner? How has this affected your parenting?

8. Has your child's personality type:Over controlled, undercontrolled or resilient., changed. To what would you attribute this change?

9. How has your teen adjusted to typical adolescent issues such as risk taking, drugs, sexuality. And how have you responded?

10.  How important has your teen's relationships with peers been to his/her social development, emotional well-being, and school achievement?

11. Choose one of the following that best describes the relationship between you and your child:   Not emotionally close and communicates rarely with you, Not emotionally close but respects you,  Emotionally close and regards you as a mentor, emotionally close but child is undisciplined .  

12. Why do you think that your relationship has evolved as it did?

13. What pathways does your child appear to be on in terms of physical, cognitive, social, emotional and moral development?

14. Has this experience, of raising our own child albeit virtually, had any impact on your thoughts of you as a parent? Explain?

Your child in every respect is a reflection of you. Not just your genetics, but also in the way you have imparted your family and cultural history, values and expectations. What you have done here in this discussion forum, is what most parents do on a regular basis. Boasted and Bragged about your kids – how smart they are, how pretty, how nice, how accomplished – in essence everything you wished you could be. Because when it boils down to it, that is what your children are, a reflection of your hopes and dreams.

Parenting isn’t easy. It is one of the most difficult jobs in this life. And it does not come with instructions. One of the purposes of this Assignment was to impart these ideas with you – the difficulty of being a parent, the high expectations that we imbue with our offspring and more importantly, the choices you can and must make and their consequences. Explain how this assignment has affected your outlook on parenting.