Social Behavior
parenting behavior
parenting be·hav·ior
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(parenting) If you're a parent, you get plenty of suggestions on how to raise your child. From experts to other parents, people are always ready to offer advice. Parenting tips, parents' survival guides, dos, don'ts, shoulds and shouldn'ts - new ones come out daily. The truth is there is more than one "right" way to be a good parent. Good parenting includes Keeping your child safe; Showing affection and listening to your child; Providing order and consistency; Setting and enforcing limits; Spending time with your child; Monitoring your child's friendships and activities; Leading by example. NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentMedlinePlusU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(parenting) Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(parenting) The act or activities involved in being a parent and raising children.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Parenting, the process of raising children and providing them with protection and care in order to ensure their healthy development into adulthood. The long-standing assumption that parents assert a direct and powerful influence on their children through the process of socialization has permeated...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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