Healthy Family Living
Family
CHILDREN: GUIDANCE/DISCIPLINE
Kenneth E. Barber, Ph.D.
WSU Extension Family Life Specialist
Parents and their children are engaged in a very important interaction, one in
which the child is learning, doing, and growing, and the parent is trying to help
the child learn, behave, and grow in appropriate ways. This is Guidance/Discipline.
Is there a difference between guidance/discipline and punishment? YES! (more)
Moving with Children
Kenneth E. Barber
Washington State University
Oregon State University
University of Idaho
The average American moves 12 times in the course
of his or her lifetime. Three of these moves occur during
childhood. Families with young children are particularly
apt to change residences. Every year, about one in five
families move; children in these families must adapt to
a different home, neighbors, friends, and environment.
Families move for many reasons, but whatever the
reason, moving presents new challenges as well as
some problems. There is the task of finding a place to
live, a neighborhood to become acquainted with, new
friends, and often a new town, suburb, or city to learn
about. For parents, a move may be connected with a
new job or the need to find one. For school-age children,
the move usually means attending a new school.
Children’s Reactions
Research on how people deal with residential change
indicates that for many families a move is a brief
disruption. Moving is easier for children than for their the effects of a carefully
planned move may go almost unnoticed. For school-age
boys and girls, however, the disruption of friendships
and familiar routines can bring bigger challenges.
The distance and duration of the move is also important,
with a longer move being somewhat harder for
a family than a shorter one.
Each child perceives and experiences a family move
differently depending on age, experience, personality,
and attitude. Infants and toddlers will be the least concerned
and disrupted as long as they are made comfortable
and their familiar routines and habits are not
seriously changed. Keep naptimes and eating schedules
as regular as possible; take time from packing to hold
and play with your child(ren); and keep favorite security
objects and a toy or two nearby.
Moving can present a more serious situation for preschool-age children. Their sense of identity depends
on their parents, family routines and the many possessions
and family objects that have become special to
them. When a child sees his or her favorite toys being
packed and put away, his or her crib or bed taken apart, ... (more)
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