Parenting Vocab

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Basic Needs

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Elements required for survival and health: food, water, shelter, clothing, medical care.

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Moral

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Used as an adjective: fitting society’s standard of correct behavior; as a noun: practice or characteristic deemed acceptable or desirable by society.

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Emotional Blackmail

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Using negative emotions for manipulation.

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Empty Promise

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promise made with no intention of following through

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Trick/Trap

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situation giving a child the choice to behave or misbehave, set up by a parent to catch misbehavior.

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Neglect

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Failure to care for or give attention to.

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Empathy

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capacity to understand or share the emotions of another

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Cope

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to deal with and attempt to overcome difficulties and hardships

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Self-discipline

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capacity to control emotions and actions; willpower

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Parental Control: dimension of Baumrind’s parenting styles involving rule enforcement.

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dimension of Baumrind’s theory of parenting styles which involves the enforcing of rules