ABSTRACT

Parenting receives growing amounts of attention from researchers, and what was once considered chiefly an art is now also recognized for being a science. Our knowledge of parenting has increased significantly in the last few decades; new developments continue to happen daily. The Encyclopedia of Parenting provides, in reference book format, what we now know about parents, parenting, and the parent-child relationship, synthesized in some 250 alphabetically arranged entries. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides an authoritative overview of a particular topic.

Subjects covered include: child activity; child outcomes; child states; parent behaviours; parental situations; external and community factors; systematic concerns; the transition to parenthood; available resources; persons who have added to our knowledge of the field. Entries draw on a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, education, and sociology. Each entry closes with a bibliography, and the volume concludes with a selected list of works for further reading.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

letter |45 pages

A

entry |3 pages

Abuse, child.

entry |3 pages

Academic achievement.

entry |3 pages

Acceptance, parental.

entry |3 pages

Adler, Alfred

entry |3 pages

Adolescent parenthood.

entry |3 pages

Adolescent pregnancy.

entry |3 pages

Adolescent separation.

entry |3 pages

Adoption.

entry |3 pages

Adult children.

entry |2 pages

Advocacy.

entry |3 pages

Affectivity, positive and negative.

entry |3 pages

African American parents.

entry |3 pages

After-school child care.

entry |3 pages

Aggression, childhood.

entry |2 pages

Aids/HIV.

entry |3 pages

AIDS/HIV, adolescent.

entry |3 pages

AIDS/HIV, pediatric.

entry |3 pages

Alliance, parenting.

entry |3 pages

Asian American parents.

entry |3 pages

Attachment, secure.

entry |3 pages

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

entry |2 pages

Authority, parental.

entry |3 pages

Autism.

letter |13 pages

B

entry |3 pages

Birth order.

entry |3 pages

Biting.

entry |3 pages

Blaming, parent.

entry |3 pages

Brazelton, T. Berry

entry |2 pages

Breastfeeding.

entry |3 pages

Bullying.

letter |39 pages

C

entry |2 pages

Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan)

entry |3 pages

Child care.

entry |3 pages

Chores.

entry |3 pages

Cleft lip and palate.

entry |2 pages

Colic.

entry |3 pages

Communication.

entry |3 pages

Community.

entry |3 pages

Competition.

entry |2 pages

Compliance.

entry |2 pages

Conflict, interparental.

entry |3 pages

Conflict resolution.

entry |3 pages

Conscience.

entry |2 pages

Consequences, natural and logical.

entry |3 pages

Consistency.

entry |2 pages

Control strategies.

entry |2 pages

Cooperative Extension Service.

entry |2 pages

Critical periods.

entry |2 pages

Crying.

entry |3 pages

Cultural

entry |3 pages

Cultural context.

entry |3 pages

Custody.

letter |40 pages

D

entry |3 pages

Deaf children, parenting.

entry |3 pages

Deaf parents.

entry |3 pages

Death, understanding of.

entry |3 pages

Death of a child.

entry |3 pages

Death of a parent.

entry |4 pages

Delinquency, juvenile.

entry |3 pages

Depression, postpartum.

entry |3 pages

Depression in children.

entry |3 pages

Depression in parents.

entry |2 pages

Developmentally Appropriate Practice.

entry |3 pages

Dimensions of Temperament Survey-Revised

entry |3 pages

Disability, learning.

entry |3 pages

Disability, physical.

entry |3 pages

Discipline.

entry |3 pages

Distancing strategies.

entry |3 pages

Divorced families.

entry |3 pages

Domestic labor.

entry |2 pages

Donor insemination.

entry |2 pages

Dreikurs, Rudolf

entry |3 pages

Dual-earner families.

letter |15 pages

E

entry |3 pages

Eating behavior, children and

entry |3 pages

Eating disorders

entry |1 pages

Education, parenting

entry |3 pages

Emotion language

entry |3 pages

Empathy

entry |2 pages

Employment, early maternal.

entry |3 pages

Empowerment

entry |3 pages

Enuresis

letter |33 pages

F

entry |3 pages

Failure to thrive.

entry |3 pages

Family-centered services.

entry |3 pages

Family council.

entry |3 pages

Family loyalty.

entry |2 pages

Family preservation.

entry |3 pages

Family-school partnerships.

entry |3 pages

Family size.

entry |3 pages

Family support.

entry |2 pages

Family systems.

entry |3 pages

Family therapy.

entry |3 pages

Fathering.

entry |3 pages

Fear.

entry |3 pages

Feminism.

entry |2 pages

Fertilization, in vitro.

entry |2 pages

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

entry |2 pages

Floortime.

entry |3 pages

Foster parenting.

entry |2 pages

Freud, Anna

letter |15 pages

G

entry |3 pages

Gay fathers.

entry |2 pages

Gender socialization.

entry |3 pages

Genetic disorders.

entry |3 pages

Gifted children.

entry |3 pages

Ginott, Haim

entry |2 pages

Goodness of fit model.

entry |3 pages

Grandparenting.

entry |3 pages

Guilt.

letter |12 pages

H

entry |3 pages

Head Start.

entry |3 pages

Hispanic/Latino parents.

entry |2 pages

HOME Inventory.

entry |3 pages

Home schooling.

entry |3 pages

Home visitation.

entry |3 pages

Hospitalization.

letter |18 pages

I

entry |3 pages

Identity development.

entry |3 pages

Illness, chronic, in children.

entry |2 pages

Imagination.

entry |3 pages

Immunization.

entry |3 pages

Indigenous Peoples parent roles.

entry |2 pages

Infertility.

entry |2 pages

Instrumental versus expressive functions.

entry |4 pages

Intergenerational parenting.

entry |3 pages

Intuitive parenting.

letter |2 pages

J

entry |2 pages

Jealousy

letter |3 pages

K

entry |3 pages

Kinship care.

letter |11 pages

L

entry |3 pages

Language development

entry |3 pages

Lesbian mothers

entry |2 pages

Limit setting

entry |2 pages

Listening

entry |3 pages

Literacy

entry |2 pages

Locke, John

letter |31 pages

M

entry |3 pages

Marital boundaries.

entry |3 pages

Marital interaction.

entry |2 pages

Mathematics.

entry |2 pages

Media, mass.

entry |3 pages

Mediation, parent-child.

entry |2 pages

Meld.

entry |3 pages

Mental illness, children.

entry |3 pages

Mental retardation.

entry |3 pages

Military families.

entry |2 pages

Misbehavior.

entry |3 pages

Money and children.

entry |2 pages

Moral development.

entry |3 pages

Mothering.

entry |2 pages

Motor development.

entry |3 pages

Multiples.

entry |3 pages

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

entry |3 pages

Mutuality.

letter |14 pages

N

entry |3 pages

Narratives, personal.

entry |2 pages

National Extension Parent Education Model (NEPEM).

entry |3 pages

Nature versus nurture.

entry |3 pages

Nightmares.

entry |2 pages

Night terrors.

entry |2 pages

Nighttime fears.

entry |3 pages

Night wakings.

entry |2 pages

Nurturance.

letter |3 pages

O

entry |3 pages

Obesity.

letter |40 pages

P

entry |3 pages

Pain, children and adolescents with.

entry |3 pages

Paradigms, parenting.

entry |1 pages

Parents Anonymous.

entry |1 pages

Parents Without Partners.

entry |3 pages

Peace education.

entry |3 pages

Peer influence.

entry |2 pages

Pets and children.

entry |3 pages

Physical activity.

entry |3 pages

Physical fitness.

entry |3 pages

Physical punishment.

entry |3 pages

Play.

entry |2 pages

Playground skills.

entry |3 pages

Popularity.

entry |4 pages

Poverty.

entry |3 pages

Premature birth.

entry |3 pages

Prevention.

entry |3 pages

Prison, parents in.

entry |3 pages

Problem solving.

entry |3 pages

Prosocial behavior.

entry |3 pages

Psychological testing.

entry |3 pages

Puberty.

letter |24 pages

R

entry |3 pages

Racial identity.

entry |2 pages

Recognition/encouragement.

entry |3 pages

Reconstituted families.

entry |3 pages

Religious development.

entry |2 pages

Reproductive technology, assisted.

entry |3 pages

Resiliency in children.

entry |3 pages

Resiliency in parents.

entry |3 pages

Rituals.

entry |2 pages

Rogers, Fred

entry |3 pages

Role strain.

entry |2 pages

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

entry |2 pages

Routines.

entry |2 pages

Rules, implicit.

entry |3 pages

Runaway children.

letter |62 pages

S

entry |2 pages

Scaffolding.

entry |3 pages

Scapegoating.

entry |3 pages

School.

entry |3 pages

Self-care.

entry |3 pages

Self-esteem.

entry |3 pages

Self-fulfilling prophecy.

entry |3 pages

Separation anxiety.

entry |3 pages

Sex education.

entry |2 pages

Sex roles.

entry |3 pages

Sexuality, adolescent.

entry |3 pages

Sexual offenders, youthful.

entry |3 pages

Shame.

entry |2 pages

Shyness.

entry |3 pages

Siblings.

entry |3 pages

Single parents.

entry |3 pages

Skinner, B. F.

entry |2 pages

Smoking.

entry |3 pages

Social competence.

entry |3 pages

Social context.

entry |3 pages

Social support, informal.

entry |3 pages

Sociocultural background.

entry |3 pages

Socioeconomic status.

entry |3 pages

Spirituality.

entry |2 pages

Spock, Benjamin

entry |2 pages

Spoiling.

entry |3 pages

Sport.

entry |2 pages

Standards of care, minimum.

entry |3 pages

Stepparents.

entry |3 pages

Stress, parental.

entry |3 pages

Styles, parenting.

entry |3 pages

Substance abuse, parents.

entry |3 pages

Substance use, children.

entry |2 pages

Sudden Infant Death

entry |2 pages

Suicide in children.

entry |2 pages

Surrogate motherhood.

letter |25 pages

T

entry |3 pages

Teacher training.

entry |2 pages

Television viewing.

entry |3 pages

Television violence.

entry |2 pages

Temperament.

entry |3 pages

Temper tantrums.

entry |2 pages

Throwaway children.

entry |3 pages

Thumb sucking.

entry |2 pages

Toilet learning.

entry |2 pages

Touching.

entry |3 pages

Toys.

entry |2 pages

Traditions.

entry |2 pages

Transition to parenthood.

entry |3 pages

Transition to school.

entry |3 pages

Triangulation.

letter |2 pages

U

entry |2 pages

Urban parenting.

letter |8 pages

V

entry |2 pages

Victim-centered discipline.

entry |3 pages

Violence, community.

entry |2 pages

Vulnerable Child Syndrome.

entry |2 pages

Vygotsky, Lev Semenovich

letter |2 pages

W

entry |2 pages

Whining.