Week 5

 Hello my fellow blog followers, today we will be talking about something psychology related. My topic of choice for this week is parenting, and how modeling affects kids.

I found an interesting article on Psychology Today that talks about a women depicts how her behaviors has impacted the action of her daughter. In the article, she states that she even though she gives her daughter unconditional love and ignore the minor mistakes, her daughter still gets frustrated at every little mistake that she makes. This allows us to visualize the massive impact that modeling may have on another person.

One of the very first experiment done about modeling was the Bobo doll experiment performed by Albert Bandura. He noticed the children who were exposed to an adult being aggressive to the doll would also show the same aggressive tendencies similar to the adults. This was a groundbreaking discovery that shows how exposure to society may change the tendencies of the child since they have less social conditioning.

Additionally, Jennifer Keluskar, the writer of the article in Psychology Today, emphasized the usage of self-care and the need to forgive yourself for the mistakes as an opportunity to model healthy coping style. She states that relentless striving to be the best parent may take away from their ability to show their child that they are enjoying them for who they actually are. In other words, if you cant forgive yourself for a mistake, you may show less focus and patience towards the child. This consistent feeling may eventually be passed onto the child, which may make the child feel mad at every mistake that they make.