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Title: Diana Baumrind's (1966) Prototypical Descriptions of 3 Parenting Styles Author: Diana Baumrind Date Published: ND Why Relevant and Summary: This site talks about Diana Baumrind's Parenting styles. This site goes into detail of the different parenting styles and gives background examples of child qualities and parenting styles. How This influenced my thinking: This site definitely gave me more insight on the parenting styles Credibility of Source: This site seems credible its from developmental psychology.org

Title: Diana Baumrind & Parenting Styles Author: Diana Baumrind Date Published: 1967 Why Relevant and Summary: This provided excellent original excerpts from her research and studies, it goes over all of the different parenting styles as well as what to expect from the children after being parented a certain way. How This Influenced My Thinking: This mademe aware of the different styles and how it could effect children, so it made me know which parenting style I would like to take on. Credibility of Source: This is credible due to the citations and that it comes from an original source document.

Title:Diana Baumrind's (1966) Prototypical Descriptions of 3 Parenting Styles Author: K. H. Grobman Date Published: 2003-2008 Why Relevant and Summary: This page gives great excerpts from Baumrind's literature, along with helpful explanations and examples. How This Influenced My Thinking: It helped to clarify Baumrind's theory. Credibility of Source: 7- References cited.

Title: Parenting Styles and Adolescence Author: Kimberly Kopko Date Published: 2007 Why relevant and summary: This is an excellent overview of Diana Baumrind's parenting styles through Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management. This research provides an overview of the parenting styles presented by Diana Baumrind, and their impact on adolescent development. How this influenced my thinking: These parenting concepts really interest me and inspired me to reflect on the several parenting styles I encountered as a child moving through a variety of foster homes. It also gave me quite a lot to think about in regards to how I parent my own children. Often I question whether or not a child having grown up in such an unstable environment as I did, is able to be a healthy and 'good' parent. However, after reading through these parenting styles, I have realized that my parenting style is natural, healthy and has a good balance of warmth and discipline. Credibility of source: Cornell University research seems credible.

Title: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Author: John Mersch, MD Date Published: 7/2/2012 Why Relevant and Summary:This article is relevant because it provides a definition for ADHD/ADD. As well, the article breaks down what it is, the symptoms and signs, and a lot more detail information. How This Influenced My Thinking: this article gave a lot of detailed information and influenced me by giving me a more detailed out look on how those diagnosed with ADHD are effected. Credibility of Source: very credible written my a MD.

Title: Parenting Styles and Related Child Behaviors Author: BeccaVrabel Reed Dow Meggan Dyreng Rachel Samsel Date Published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: This is a powerpoint thats both defines the terms and types of parenting style proposed by Diana Baumrind. They go further as to explaining the way each parenting style affects the child in both a psychological way and physical way. How This Influenced My Thinking: This powerpoint helped to strengthen my knowledge in regards to the topic of parenting styles Credibility of Source: published on a .edu website which means its of educational purposes and should hold some validity and credibility

Title: Parenting Styles Author: Rose Allen, Joan Sprain Date Published: 2009 Why Relevant and Summary: It is relevant because it talks about the four different parenting styles that there are out there. and how to deal with them. There are four main parenting styles that are out there and each child was parented by at least one of them. How this influenced my thinking: It made me realize that there are more parenting styles out there than what how my parents parented me. It makes me happy that my parents parented me the way they did because i do not like the other type of parenting styles. Credibility of SOurce: It is from the University of MInnesota and was revised about four times by different people.

Title: Parenting styles Author: Pokerala kids Date Published: 2013 Why relevant and summary: It explains the four different types of parenting styles. How this influenced my thinking: It let me realized why every person is different because of the the way their parents taught them. Credibility of source: It is recent., and seems like it is.

Title: Child Obesity: Is Your Child Overweight or Obese? Author: Catherine Holecko Date published: N.D. Summary and why relevant: This article defines what a BMI is and how the doctors calculates a child's BMI. The article also discussing reasons for why a child may become obese. How this influenced my thinking: This article gave me a better understanding of how children's body mass index was calculated. Credibility of source: well known website that is frequently used to answer questions.

Title: Child Obesity: Is your Child Overweight or Obese? Author: Catherine Holecko Date Published: n.d Why Relevant and Summary: It informs us how obesity is measured, what are the causes, an what can be done to change. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me more knowledge on the topic. It informs you what else child obesity can lead to if it's not treated. Credibility of Source: Seems credible.

Title:Intelligence: The Measurement of Cognitive Capabilities Date: n.d Author: Angela Oswalt Summary and Why Relevant: it is relevant because it talks about the intelligence of children and what affects their intelligence. I believe that it is a good site because it goes into IQ test and how they work on children. How This Influenced My Thinking: It made me realize that children are more complex in their intelligence than I thought them to be. Their brains are a mystery and everyone learns and thinks differently. Credibility of Source: It is from a mental health website.

Title:IQ scores not accurate marker of intelligence, study shows Author: Michelle Castillo Date Published:2012 Why Relevant and Summary: This is a good article that disputes the standard measures of intelligence. How This Influenced My Thinking: It gave me good insight on how cognitive abilities is truly measured and that there is not one sure way approach to do this. Credibility of Source: medium good sources within the article

Title: Children and divorce Author: No Author Date Published: Updated March 2011 Why Relevant and summary: It is relevant because it talks about divorce and how it affects children. It also discusses what the best approach is when dealing with children and divorce. How this influenced my thinking: I am now more conscious and aware that everything that parents do will affect their children.

Title:Middle Childhood to Middle Adolescence: Development from Ages 8 to 18 Author:Blume & Zembar Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This source is all about middle childhood and adolescence and gives you a good sense how the progression from childhood into adolescence including social interactions How This Influenced My Thinking:This source gave me a good understanding about peer relationships in particular in what makes middle age children socially acceptable and popular Credibility of Source:high

Title: Middle Childhood (6-8 years of age) Author: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Date Published: August 12, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: Well this is relevant because it talks about middle childhood and what it is that can and will most likely affect children. It is actually useful information that I found to be interesting because there are things that even I did not know. How this Influenced My Thinking: It influenced my thinking by making me realize that middle childhood was perhaps the most important time in a child's life that mattered the most to them. looking back now at y middle childhood I can see why it was so important. that's the period in time where things changed for me and I know changed for every other kid around me. Credibility: It is from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, which is a Government Website.

Title: Effects of Divorce on Children Author: Lesley Foulkes-Jamison Date Published: 2001 Why Relevant and Summary:This article focused on children and their behaviors and reactions after divorce. It also gave some good insight on what parents could do to make their child feel less confused about the divorce. How This Influenced My Thinking: I learned about statistics of how likely children are to behave in negative ways after divorce and also gave me good advice on how to help your child cope. Credibility of Source: Lesley is a psychologist and has a Ph.D and all of her information seemed to be very accurate.

Title: The Effects of Divorce on Children Author: Foulkes-Jamison, L. & Carolina, S. Date Published: 2001 Why Relevant and Summary: Discusses the many stressors on children as their parents go through a divorce, and how they are affected differently depending on their age and level of development. Also gives many tips on ways to make the divorce easier on your children. How This Influenced My Thinking: Opened my eyes up to the many challenges present in this type of situation - when a couple is not happy together nor getting along but still need to work really hard to keep a good enough relationship to support their children. Credibility of Source: Clinical Psychology Associates - very credible

Title: Middle-School Friends Are Critical For Future Success Author: Rick Nauert Date Published: January 13, 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: It talks about how boys and girls whose friends are socially active in ways where rules are respected do better in their classroom work. How This Influenced My Thinking: On how it is important to have friendships when you are growing up Credibility of Source: Good

Title: Early friendships profoundly affects child's development Author: Paul Schwartz Date Published: N.D. Why relevant and summary: This article discusses the importance of friendship during early childhood and middlechildhood. It discusses some of the factors that allows a child to keep a friend and the possible outcomes when a child is rejected. This article also discussed that it is imperative that a parent understand when a child is lonely or just simply wants to be alone. How this influenced my thinking: I found it interesting that like adults children need their alone time. I never realized the importance of them being able to play by themself and if a parent is too pushy that it could cause them to withdraw. Credibility of Source: Article was published by a Dr.

Title: Face Bullying With Confidence 8 Kidpower Skills We Can Use Right Away Author: Irene van der Zande Date: n.d. Why relevant and summary: This article was an extract from a book called "Bullying - What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe", which gives advice on how to handle bullying and how to help young children who are subject to it. It gives 8 tips that anyone who works with children can find useful. It stresses the idea that this is a phenomena that unfortunately exists in our schools, but it is preventable. We should educate ourselves and our kids and empower them to face challenges with confidence. How has this influenced my thinking: I am a mother of two young boys, and even though we have not experienced any bullying, is good to know as much as possible that in any event I can help my boys deal with this challenge. Credibility of source: This article was published on Kid-power.com by its founder who is a published author. Kidpower is a non profit organization which advocates and helps kids against abuse, kidnapping, bullying etc nation wide and internationally.

title: Social Issues: What Can Parents Do? author: PBS- parents date: n.d why relevant and summary: I found this article very interesting, it gives great advice on how can parents help their kids with their friendships and what can they do without overpowering them. how has this influenced my thinking: This article has confirmed a lot of strategies that I have used with my kids and their friends so far. credibility of source: it is published on the PBS website.

Title: Talking To Your Kids About Sex date: May 2005 author: American Academy of child and adolescent psychiatry why relevant and summary: This article offers an overview on what to expect as your child approaches middle childhood and adolescence. It explain what to expect the question to be at certain stages and how much information to give and how to present it. how has this influenced my thinking: I have a 7 and a 9 year old and I am very interested to know as much as possible about this topic. I was very surprised to read how the professionals contributing to this article find it a OK to explain to an 8 year old the basic concept of conception. credibility of source: it was published on the "American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" website.

Title-Sex and Puberty Author-Rebecca Caroll Date-2013 Why relevant and Summary-It talks about have the puberty and sex talk with your children. How has this influenced your thinking- I learned the right way to have the talk. Creditability-Seems credible because of the recency