| A | B |
| Authoritarian | The parents try to be in control and exert their control on the children. These parents set strict rules to try to keep order, and they usually do this without much expression of warmth and affection. |
| Permissive | The parents give up most control to their children. Parents make few, if any, rules, and the rules that they make are usually not consistently enforced |
| Democratic | The parents help children learn to be responsible for themselves and to think about the consequences of their behavior. Parents do this by providing clear, reasonable expectations for their children and explanations for why they expect their children to behave in a particular manner. |
| Uninvolved | This parenting style is characterized by by few demands, low responsiveness and little communication |
| Reasons for different parenting styles | Culture, background, family size, educational level and religion |
| Freud | His theory of personality if based on the belief that we operate on the conscious and unconscious, but are mostly influenced by the unconscious |
| Maslow | Believed that people are motivated to fulfill their basic needs before moving on to other needs. |
| Piaget | Ideas and theories are important today in educational theory |
| Erikson | Believed we continue to develop socially and psychologically until the day we die. |
| self-actualization | According to Maslow it means reaching your fullest potential. |
| id | Part of the personality that seeks pleasure |
| ego | Part of the personality that is rationale and mediates between the id and superego |
| superego | Part of the personality and learns and follows rules |
| sociologist | study and describe the process of growth that a family experiences as it progresses through the family life cycle. |
| independence | The life cycle begins when an individual gains this |
| Newlywed or Coupling Stage | This is the time that a couple begins their life together after marriage and creates their own home.. |
| Expanding Stage | Children enter the family during this time. This stage can be fairly short or it can extend over a number of years. |
| Growing Stage | Children are in pre-school and elementary years during this stage. It is the parent’s role to : |
| Crowded Stage | The home can become ____________ as children enter their teen years. |
| Launching Stage | As each child matures and leaves the home, there are adjustments for the child, siblings, and parents. New relationships develop as marriage and childbearing begins and couples become in-laws and grandparents. |
| Empty Nest | When the last child has left home, the couple has the opportunity to re-evaluate and direct their relationship. |
| Retirement Stage | This stage begins when a couple ends their career lives. This stage can be a great adventure where parents are free from the responsibilities of raising children and can simply enjoy the fruits of their life's work. |
| Shaken Baby Syndrome | When a baby is violently shaken |
| SIDS | Risk factors include smoking, putting babies to sleep on their stomach or with pillows and stuffed animals. |
| Hotdogs, carrot, grapes | Foods that are a choking hazard for toddlers |
| Infant car seat | Should be in the beack deat, rear facing until age 1 |
| Folic acid | B vitamin essential in preventing birth defects |
| Birth defect | Anything wrong with a newborn baby |