Дискуссия по теме "Стили воспитания детей"

II Discussion Parenting

I True or False

1. A person’s upbringing and education starts at school.

2. When children grow up and become independent, their families stop influencing their lives.

3. A child’s upbringing is a chaotic and uncontrollable process.

4. A permissive parenting style requires a great share of discipline on the part of the parent and that of the child.

5. Those parents who choose an authoritarian parenting style are strict and demanding.

6. Authoritarian parents give their children unrestricted freedom.

7. Authoritative parents use punishment and praise appropriately.

8. Neglectful parents are often strict but fair.

II Complete each sentence (A-H) with one of the endings (1-8).

III Answer the questions

1. What role does the family play in a child’s development?

2. Why is being a parent one of the most challenging tasks in the world?

3. What are parents’ duties? Which of them do you consider the most important?

4. How can you characterize the relationships between permissive parents and their children?

5. Why do the experts say that a permissive parenting style is not beneficial for children?

6. What are the disadvantages of an authoritarian parenting style?

7. Why is an authoritative parenting style the most recommended according to experts?

8. Why do children feel involved and depressed if their parents choose a neglectful parenting style?

9. What should parents remember if they want to raise healthy and happy children?

10. What parenting style would you choose when you have children?

IV Read the quotations and comment on them.

1. ‘I believe that a parent’s role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.’ (David Soul)

2. ‘Consciously or unconsciously children pattern themselves on their parents.’ (A. Linkletter)

3. ‘A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.’ (Elizabeth Gaskell)

4. ‘All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.’ (Benjamin Spock)

5. ‘If you raise the children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.’ (Brian Tracy)

6. ‘A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone’ (Billy Graham)

7. If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.’ (Bette Davis)

8. ‘There’s no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.’ ( Henry Ward Beecher)

V Imagine that you a parent. What would you do in the following situations?

• Your 9-year old son refuses to perform the simplest duties about the house: to make his bed, to remove his toys, to wash his plate after dinner, etc.

• Your 12-year daughter has become aggressive and difficult to control. She spends too much time with her friends, shirks school smokes. Your attempts to discipline her make the things worse.

• Your 6-year-old son asks you to buy him a very expensive toy. He does not stop talking about it. Besides, his best friend’s patents have already bought him ‘that wonderful robot’. You don’t want to upset your son but you can’t afford to buy this toy.