Precious Psych
1. Identify and describe the parenting style of Precious’ mother? How did this parent style impact Precious in terms of her physical, cognitive, social and moral development? Provide very specific examples.
Precious’ mother exhibit’s extremely authoritarian parenting style and some aspects of neglectful parenting. Her authoritarian parenting comes in the form of her need to always be in control and exerts that control on Precious. She always wants things to be done her way and does not give precious a chance to have a say in anything. She tells Precious she should not go to school but rather rely on welfare checks. She wants precious to cook for her whenever she wants. She does not show any warmth or affection for Precious or her two grandchildren. She is verbally and physically abusive. She is also neglectful because she is more concerned about her own wants and needs does not care about Precious.
Impact
Physical- The poor parenting style of Precious’ mother, led to her daughter’s sexual abuse, and early pregnancy. Precious demeanor was always of anger and frustration that she experienced at home. Her mother was not concerned about what her daughter ate and she obviously ate whatever was available, hence her obesity.
Cognitive- She had problems learning at school. She did not have the right environment and parents to motivate intellectual growth and her mother kept telling her she is stupid and can’t learn anything. It took the help of Ms Rain to develop her learning ability. Poor problem solving skills when people made funny of her in school she became really aggressive.
Social- She shows aggressive behavior in school, she is aggressive towards the little girl in the neighborhood and later towards her mother. She does not show a friendly disposition, hardly smiled; she almost always looked angry and frustrated.
Moral-Precious showed some morally inappropriate behavior such as stealing the bucket of chicken when she was hungry and had nothing else to eat. She
Precious’ mother exhibit’s extremely authoritarian parenting style and some aspects of neglectful parenting. Her authoritarian parenting comes in the form of her need to always be in control and exerts that control on Precious. She always wants things to be done her way and does not give precious a chance to have a say in anything. She tells Precious she should not go to school but rather rely on welfare checks. She wants precious to cook for her whenever she wants. She does not show any warmth or affection for Precious or her two grandchildren. She is verbally and physically abusive. She is also neglectful because she is more concerned about her own wants and needs does not care about Precious.
Impact
Physical- The poor parenting style of Precious’ mother, led to her daughter’s sexual abuse, and early pregnancy. Precious demeanor was always of anger and frustration that she experienced at home. Her mother was not concerned about what her daughter ate and she obviously ate whatever was available, hence her obesity.
Cognitive- She had problems learning at school. She did not have the right environment and parents to motivate intellectual growth and her mother kept telling her she is stupid and can’t learn anything. It took the help of Ms Rain to develop her learning ability. Poor problem solving skills when people made funny of her in school she became really aggressive.
Social- She shows aggressive behavior in school, she is aggressive towards the little girl in the neighborhood and later towards her mother. She does not show a friendly disposition, hardly smiled; she almost always looked angry and frustrated.
Moral-Precious showed some morally inappropriate behavior such as stealing the bucket of chicken when she was hungry and had nothing else to eat. She