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Introduction

· Research Question: What is the importance of parenting style in children’s development?

· Thesis: Although genetic factors are found to have significant influence on individual differences in parent-child relationships, studies show that parents and parenting styles affect children’s physical and, more importantly, emotional development, which, in turn, shapes their personality.

Body Paragraphs:

1. Physical Activity Well-Being in Early Childhood

· Claim 1: Physical Activity has short term benefits in early childhood.

· Evidence:

· Allow infants to move in supervised, floor-based play throughout the day (Peluso, Guerra and Andrade, 2005)

· Spending time on their stomachs helps infants strengthen muscles they will later need for crawling and walking—it also gives opportunities for reaching and grasping, which can improve hand/eye coordination.

· Analysis:

Parents need to encourage such physical activity in early childhood to benefit their children immediately and later in life—if a parent were to ignore the benefits of these activities, children would be disadvantaged later in life.

· Claim 2:

Physical activity in early childhood has long-term benefits for physical health

· Evidence:

· Healthier body composition, better bone and heart health (Parfitt, 1994).

· Lack of physical activity in early childhood could lead to obesity later (Owens, 1993)

· It could prevent osteoporosis later in life

· Analysis:

Again, we see that if a parent ignores the importance of such activities, their children could suffer negative effects for the rest of their lives.

2. Parenting Style and Emotional Development

· Claim 1: The care-giver is the most important factor in a child’s emotional development

· Evidence:

· Depressed mothers put the child at risk of developing emotional problems (Sroufe 2001).

· Children see how their parents display emotions and interact with other people—the children imitate what they see their parents do to regulate emotions (Sheffield Morris, 2007)

· Analysis: Bring this back to my overall thesis: If a parent is not careful in their examples and emotional interaction…

· Claim 2: How parents address the emotions of their children and respond to them affects how expressive the children feel they can be

· Evidence:

(information from source/ personal observation or experience/ counterargument)

· Analysis: