Limitations Of Parenting Practices

1. Parenting practices are specific things that parents do with their children to raise them. Some practices are playing with the child, often with gender specific toys, reading to or with the child, taking them to church and teaching them how to cook. Parenting styles are how parents relate to their children through acceptance and involvement, control and autonomy granting. There are four parenting styles; authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and uninvolved. The first style is authoritative style. This style is warm, responsive, attentive, patient and sensitive to child’s needs but makes reasonable demands for appropriate behavior as well as allow the child to appropriately make decisions and encourage to express own thoughts and feelings. A parent who uses this style will help guide their child in a positive way by being involved and using mistakes as learning opportunities. Children raised using this style are usually upbeat and have better self esteem.

The preoperational stage is the second stage in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. This stage starts at age two and lasts until age seven. During this stage children begin to learn through symbolic play such as make believe and play with others. During this stage there are types of limitations children experience three of the main limitations are egocentrism, inability to conserve and lack of hierarchical classification The first limitation, egocentrism is failure to distinguish symbolic viewpoint of others from one’s own. Children between the ages of three to seven are just begging to learn that what they see, hear and feel are not always the same as another person. The Three mountain task showed that three year olds are unable to accurately predict what someone on the other side of the mountain sees; they predict the other person will see what they see. The second limitation is the inability to understand conservation. Between the ages five and seven children begin to understand