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the ability to control one's feelings and overcome one's weaknesses; the ability to pursue what one thinks is right despite temptations to abandon it.

Your discipline tactics shouldn't be about controlling your child. Instead, discipline should be about teaching your child how to control himself. Kids who learn self-discipline will be better equipped to face life's challenges, manage stress, and make healthy choices even when you're not around.

Just because a child is well-behaved, it doesn’t necessarily mean he has self-discipline. Self-disciplined kids can choose to forgo immediate gratification. They can make good choices regardless of how they feel.

I found it interesting that you can teach your child about self discipline

I’ll apply that to my brother someday

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When parents are absent or unable to raise their children, grandparents are often the ones who step in. Raising a second generation brings many rewards, including the fulfillment of giving your grandkids a sense of security, developing a deeper relationship, and keeping the family together. It also comes with many challenges. No matter how much you love your grandkids, taking them into your home requires major adjustments. But with the right guidelines and support, you can roll back the years and make a real difference in the lives of your grandchildren.

I found that grandparents raising grandchildren is actually nice

I’ll apply that to my mom

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Development: a change of function as a result of growth. Refers to progress in skills and abilities, measured in stages, because it occurs in an orderly sequence. Most development requires growth too.

Physical development: includes the biological changes in a person. Some of these changes growth of the entire body, such as bones and muscles, internal organs, and the brain. Physical development also includes changes in hormones and motor skills.

Intellectual development: involves changes in a person’s thinking, intelligence, and language. Intellectual development includes the many brain activities, such as memory, problem solving, and imagining.

Emotional development: involves recognizing feelings or emotions such as love, fear, happiness, or anger. Another part of emotional development is learning to express emotions and learning to control certain responses to emotions. Emotions or feelings play in an important role in personality development. Children learn to experience and express their feelings through their interactions with parents, siblings, and others.

Social development: involves changes in person’s relationships with other people. Children first learn about relating to others by observing, and interacting with their parents. A child’s social development is also greatly affected by contact, or lack of contact with other children and adults. You can study social and emotional development separately, they are really interwoven or blended. As you read, many feelings arise from and are expressed through social relations. Many researchers express this blend as “socioemotional development.” Parenting involves the whole child, all aspects of growth and development blended together.

I found the development of the child interesting

I will apply this to myself when I’m going to know my future child

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Beginning stage: the first stage of the family life cycle begins with a couple’s marriage, which establishes a family unit.

During this stage, their main goal is adjusting to married life. Each person must learn to share life with the other maintain his or her own individuality.

Childbearing stage: the second stage begins with expectant parenthood. As this stage begins, the couple focuses on the coming birth. As they prepare for the arrival of their first child , the couple realizes nothing will ever be the same. Primary attention so focused on the baby. The couple now has dual family roles- husband/father and wife/mother. Parents must learn how to manage extra responsibilities and conflicting demands on their time and energy. This stage ends when the first child reaches 3.

Parenting preschoolers stage

primary attention is focused on providing for the child’s growth and development in the preschool years. Parents develop firm thinking about how to support, guide, and discipline their children socially and emotionally in this stage.

Parenting school-angers stage

This stage begins when the first child is age 6. Parents adjust to their parents within the school community and must encourage their children’s school achievements. Children are also expected to internalize the “rules” of home and school and become more responsible. This stage ends when the first child reaches age 13.

Parenting adolescents stage

Parents must now focus on the adolescent who wants to become more independent of the family system. Parents have to reason with children about decisions they are making within and outside the family setting.

Launching stage. Parents now prepare each child in turn to be independent of the family. Parents assist their children in becoming established in homes and careers. Th launching stage is a process of letting go of day-to-day parenting tasks.

Middle-age Years stage

During this stage, parents can focus on each other again. Many assume the role of grandparents and prepare for the retirement years. Couples without children gradually transition to this stage while others are in their parenting years. They mature in their marriage relationship and prepare for their retirement years as do people who have children.

Aging family stage

The couple must adjust to changes brought on by retirement. For many couples, this means having more time to spend with each other and with new activities. This time offers couples to take on new hobbies. For many older adults, this also means dealing with dealing

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Includes a husband, wife, and the children they have together. These children may be biological or adopted. One time, nearly all American families were nuclear families. Today nuclear families is becoming less common.

Yet many experts consider this structure the most stable and secure setting for parenting. I’m nuclear families, spouses generally share parenting responsibilities. Since neither spouse parents alone, parenting is often less stressful.

These couples often have more time and energy to enjoy their children and each other. Children who live with both parents have both male and female role models.

Income is usually higher than in other family structures, especially when both spouses are employed, so more child care options are available.

Both parents split the burden of parenting tasks.

Rate of divorce is high. Families often have to adapt to new family structures.

I learned that nuclear families are becoming less common today.

I can apply it to my brother’s future marriage.

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Include adoptive parents and one or more adopted children who may have the same birth parents.

Adoptive parents are legally the child’s parents and have the same responsibilities as birth parents.

People may choose adoption for various reasons. Some couples are unable to have biological children. Adoption can allow them to experience parenting.

A couple may also adopt if one spouse has a hereditary condition that would likely affect their future biological children. Other couples adopt simply to offer loving homes to children who need them.

They may adopt infants or older children. Because they have chosen to become parents, adoptive parents are usually very dedicated to parenting.

I learned that a couple may adopt if one spouse has a hereditary condition that would likely affect their future biological children.

I’ll be sure to apply that to myself in the future.

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The fifth family structure include large married couples without children. People may not always think of childless couples as families, but spouses are related to one another by marriage.

This makes them a family even if they do not have children. A married couple may be unable to have children or may choose to remain childless.

Some couples delay parenthood until they have been married several years. They remain in this family structure until they have children and enter the nuclear family structure,

I learned that  you can have a family in a married relationship without children.

I will apply it to my friends if they want a married relationship without children.

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Includes one parent and his or her biological or adopted children

Many single parent families consist of a once married parent and his or her children.

The other parent is gone from the family as a result of death, divorce, desertion, or legal separation. Other single parents have never been married. Today it is more common for never-married adults to give birth or adopt children.

These single parents may not have had the chance or desire to marry.

what I learned is that sometimes you don’t need another parent to take care of a child.

I’ll apply it  to my sister if she ever wants to be a single parent in the future.

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Knowledge of development skills children have at certain age, helps parents provide an atmosphere for growth and learning.

Nurturance involves challenging children to do their best at developing skills appropriate for their age.

Through help and encouragement from parents, children gradually develop important physical, intellectual, emotional, and social skills.

I found it interesting on how you teach and raise a child to learn skills.

I’ll apply that to myself in the future to teach my son or daughter a few skills to use in school and life.

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Act or process of raising a child. Involves meeting the child’s needs to age 18 or sometimes longer.

Parenting also means guiding a child toward the goal of a competent adult.

Biological, adoptive, and foster parents, as well as family members, teachers, and others can handle the process of raising children.

What I learned is that parenting is deep leveled , continued commitment and a 24 hour a day, everyday job.
I will apply this information to my brother’s future daughter.