PSY 355 Topic 4 Positive Parenting Plan

PSY 355 Week 4 Assignment, Positive Parenting Plan

Go to the Psychology Brain-Based Media piece to read the case study of siblings. http://lc.gcumedia.com/psy362/brain-based-learning/v1.1/scenarios.html

Write a 500-750-word paper discussing various approaches to parenting based on the information provided in the scenario. Address the following in your paper:

Discuss how a parent, using authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles, would manage the behavior in the scenario.

Discuss the effects of each parenting style on the child.

Based on Piaget’s theory, create a parenting plan to educate parents to react appropriately to the scenario. Include the following in your parenting plan:

Discuss which parenting style is most effective in the long term.

How can understanding the stages of child development improve a parent’s ability to interact with his/her child?  Provides an example using one of Piaget’s stages.