Separated children in southern areas between the theory and practices (original) (raw)

Parenting styles is children nurturing process by a technique focused on giving affection as a deep supervision from parents to children. The objective of this research is to investigate the parenting method of single parents to children at early childhood taken care of by single parents. The methodology of this research is qualitative descriptive. The data was collected by interviews, observations and documentations. The results show that the parenting styles characteristics of single parents are: a) giving freedom, yet responsible b) blame the children, if they did wrong c) giving boundaries about do's and don'ts. In the other side, social emotional development of children at early age with single parents proved with some behaviors as: 1) get mad if something doesn't happen as they will. 2) shared voluntarily to friends 3) not being shy if they asked to shake hands 4) if someone talk to them, they answered.