Galinsky’s Stages

Which stage of Galinsky’s Stages involves parents beginning to shape their role as parents even before the child arrives on the scene, by forming images of birth and parenthood?

• Image-Making

• Nurturing

• Authority

• Interdependent

Fill in the blank: The stage of Galinsky’s Stages that occurs from birth until two years, where parents compare their images of birth, their child, and themselves as parents with their actual experience, is called ________.

• Nurturing

• Authority

• Interpretive

• Interdependent

Which stage of Galinsky’s Stages is characterized by parents deciding what kind of authority to have, how rules are set, and what happens when they are broken, typically occurring from 2 to 4 years?

• Image-Making

• Nurturing

• Authority

• Interpretive

Match the following Galinsky’s Stages to their descriptions:

• Parents begin to shape their role as parents before the child arrives.

• Nurturing

• Parents decide what kind of authority to have and how rules are set.

• Interdependent

• Parents become aware of changes in teenagers and redefine the authority relationship.

• Interpretive

• Parents compare their images of birth, their child, and themselves as parents with their actual experience.

• Authority

• Parents prepare themselves for changes to come and interpret their child’s needs.

• Image-Making

During which stage of Galinsky’s Stages do parents prepare themselves for changes to come by evaluating the past and interpreting their child’s needs, typically during the elementary school years?

• Nurturing

• Authority

• Interpretive

• Departure

The stage of Galinsky’s Stages that begins when the child leaves home and is characterized by parents evaluating whether they achieved the parent/grown child relationship they wanted is called (a)   .

• Departure
• Nurturing
• Authority
• Interpretive

Match the age to the stage

• Elementary school years

• Stage one: Image-Making

  
  

• Teenage years.

• Stage Five: Interdependent

  
  

• It is a lifelong process

• Stage Four: Interpretive

  
  

• 2 to 4 years

• Stage two: Nurturing

  
  

• Birth until two years.

• Stage Three: Authority