How Does The Home Environment Affect A Child’s Upbringing?
Raising children is not an easy task. The little ones are people in development who learn as they go with the help of their parents. They learn to regulate their emotions and control their behavior. Parents can face this process without knowing how to cope with it, tired or stressed by other factors. And then they can lose patience when their children have an outburst of rage or misbehave. In this respect, the home environment greatly affects the child’s upbringing.
All this affects the home environment, something that is fundamental for the child’s upbringing. Although we know how important the home environment is, many of us tend to pay more attention to other factors. Some of these other factors are how we as parents must set boundaries or get our children to meet certain social norms. In this article, we will discuss a topic that has not been studied to a sufficient extent: the home environment and its influence on child rearing,
How does the home environment affect children and their upbringing?
In order to gain a better understanding of how the home environment affects upbringing, we must first identify what we mean by “home environment”. The concept consists of the well-being or anxiety that is the result of the interaction between the different family members.
These interactions vary. They range from punishment, accusations and restrictions to help, condemnation and support. It also includes social behavior. As you can imagine, these behaviors can have a significant effect on other family members.
Children have an influence on the parents as well as parents influence their children. When it comes to upbringing, the home environment can affect their self-confidence, their commitments, their motivation, their performance in school and their habits and routines.
How do I recognize a negatively charged home environment?
With that said, the impact can be positive or negative. A negative home environment arises when these interactions favor egocentric, violent, disruptive or intolerant behaviors. This disturbs their well-being.
In fact, when this happens, we find low cohesion between family members and many conflicts. As expected, it will then be a source of stress that has an emotional significance for both children and parents. Not only that, but it also creates behavioral problems in the child and becomes a risk factor for everyone’s well-being.
What leads to this type of home environment? Parents may have specific habits that benefit from this. It has been shown that an overly authoritarian approach and repeated punishment, exclusive and disproportionate, lead to the creation of a negative home environment. Another reason may be the lack of clear rules in the family.
How do I recognize a positive home environment?
Parents can create a positive environment by establishing clear rules and using timeouts and other corrections rather than punishment. In addition, they should try to reason with the children, listen to them, praise them and support the positive behaviors that they want their children to adopt as habits.
In this way, social behaviors arise together with interest, respect, help, participation and trust. Children achieve more independence, self-esteem and self-confidence and they grow in a more stable and competent way: socially, physically, behaviorally and lovingly.
In the end, the home environment is one of the variables that can significantly affect growth, both positively and negatively. Having functioning relationships and family ties is important. In this way, they can create interaction patterns that benefit their social relationships and their self-confidence.
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