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Child, Family, and Community Parenting Styles - CDEC 113

Your search for information on styles of parenting can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

Books

Use the Library Catalog to find books on your subject. Suggested subject headings include:

Child development

Child rearing

Corporal punishment

Discipline of children

Divorced parents – psychology

Grandparents as parents

Parent and child

Parent and teenager

Parenting

Single fathers

Single mothers

Single parents

Listed below are some books that may be useful in your research.

Bailey, Rebecca Anne.
Easy to love, difficult to discipline : the 7 basic skills for turning conflict into cooperation.

HQ770.4 .B3 2000

 

Chess, Stella.
Know your child : an authoritative guide for today's parents.

HQ772 .C418 1987

 

Davies, Patrick.
Child emotional security and interparental conflict.
HQ772.5 .D25 2002

 

Herschkowitz, Norbert.
A good start in life : understanding your child's brain and behavior.

BF721 .H413 2002

Electronic Access:

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10245.html

 

Nelsen, Jane.
Positive discipline for single parents : nurturing cooperation, respect, and joy in your single-parent family.

HQ759.915 .N45 1999

 

Nelsen, Jane.
Positive discipline for your stepfamily : nurturing harmony, respect, and joy in your new family.

HQ759.92 .N47 2000

 

Online Journal and Reference Articles

Journals and magazines usually provide the most current information on a topic. Journal articles are more scholarly or professional while magazine articles tend to be shorter and more general. Newspaper articles, while not usually scholarly or professional, can give you the most current news and some additional facts on your topic. To find articles on your topic, use one of the online indexes listed below. They are available at http://www.cerritos.edu/library/http://www.cerritos.edu/library/e-resources.html . Use subject headings similar to those used to locate books. The Library also has print indexes that must be used to find older articles, generally anything published before 1985.

EbscoHost

Keyword searches:

Parenting styles

Authoritarian and parenting

Authoritative and parenting

Permissive and parenting

 Ethnic Newswatch

 

GenderWatch

 

See the Library Internet Resources handout for a complete description of our online resources.

 

Internet Sites

The Internet can be a valuable source for supplementing the information you have gathered from books and periodicals. It is important that you evaluate the information you get from the Internet to determine if it is reliable and useful to your research. A few Internet sites that may be useful are listed here.

Developmental Psychology.org

http://www.devpsy.org/teaching/parent/baumrind_styles.html

 

Do you know your parenting style?

http://childrentoday.com/resources/articles/parent.htm

 

GrandsPlace

http://www.grandsplace.com/

 

MomAlone.com

http://www.momalone.com/

 

Parenthood.com: Helping Families Grow

http://www.links.parenthood.com/links.html

 

Parenting Adolescents

http://www.parentingadolescents.com/

 

Parenting Style Quiz: what kind of parent are you?

http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/quizzes/l/bl_prnt_style.htm

 

Project NoSpank

http://www.nospank.net/

 

Responsible Single Fathers

http://www.singlefather.org/

 

 

 

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