Understanding Parenting: Core Values and Modern Insights
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Explore the essential elements of effective parenting, as discussed in a recent group meeting. Key topics include the importance of security, love, time spent together, and setting boundaries. Current research highlights the lasting impact of parenting on childhood self-control, which is linked to adult health, wealth, and safety. Engage in discussions about cultural differences in parenting, the role of faith in supporting parents, and the vital secrets to successful parenting. Build a community of understanding and support for parents everywhere.
Understanding Parenting: Core Values and Modern Insights
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Some key parts of parenting (as identified by the group) Security/protection Money! Patience/tolerance/hope/inspiration Time spent Affirmation/acceptance Setting &negotiating limits/discipline Love Community/ values/ Food/shelter/money Flexibility Long term perspective Playing/ energy lifeskills Setting example Education
Some facts about parenting… • Parenting develops childhood self-control, which predicts adult health, wealth and public safety1 • Victims of child maltreatment are particularly at risk of becoming perpetrators of child maltreatment2 • There is an increased risk of childhood obesity (OR 1.36) among maltreated children3 • (But note that probability is not the same as inevitability! You can still shape your own life) • Moffitt T, Arseneault L, Belsky D, Dickson N, Hancox R, Harrington H, Houts R, Poulton R, Roberts B, Ross S, Sears M, Thompson W, Caspi A (2011). A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108(7): 2693 -2698; doi 10.1073/pnas.1010076108 • Dixon, L., K. Browne, and C. Hamilton-Giachritsis. 2005). Risk factors of parents abused as children: a mediational analysis of the intergenerational continuity of child maltreatment (Part I). Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines, 46(1), 47–57 • Danese A, Tan M (2013). Childhood maltreatment and obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis. Molecular Psychiatry (2013), 1–11
Questions for this evening • What words best define your experience of being parented? • Are there cultural differences in parenting? • If the church is to support parenting in South Africa, what images of Father & Mother God should we portray? • What are the of good parenting? 5 Secrets
5 secrets of good parenting • Women: Stop drinking all alcohol the moment you miss a period (cells differentiate between 29th & 70th days)1 • Have as much skin-to-skin contact between parents and baby in the first 1000 minutes of life2 • Read to your baby from birth3 • Let your baby sleep in bed with you, for at least the first few months4 • Create space, to renew yourself5 • Bánhidy F, Lowry RB, Czeizel AE. Risk and Benefit of Drug Use During Pregnancy. Int J Med Sci 2005; 2(3):100-106. doi:10.7150/ijms.2.100 • Bergman N (2013). The science behind skin-to-skin contact. http://dhss.delaware.gov/dph/chs/files/thesciencebehindskintoskincontact.pdf • Nelson C (2000). From neurons to neighbourhood: the science of early childhood development. University of Minnesota. www.nap.edu/books/0309069882/html/ • Morgan B, Horn A, Bergman N, “Should Neonates Sleep Alone?” Biological Psychiatry 70 (November 2011): 817–825 • Secki J, Holmes M (2007). Mechanisms of Disease: glucocorticoids, their placental metabolism and fetal ‘programming’ of adult pathophysiology. Nature Reviews (Endocrinology) 3: 479-488