Annotated Bibliography on Parental Trust: A Growing Issue in Society

Introduction

The issue of mistrust between parents and their children is a significant societal concern. Many children are finding alternative sources of information in the modern age. As a result, it is common to find children disapproving of what their parents require them to. In high conflict cases, parents and their children completely experience a breakdown in communication, meaning that the children completely cannot confide in the parents even in matters that require significant parental intervention (Schiano and Christine 650). Parents in the modern age are also struggling to understand children who are more exposed than them in many ways. This topic is especially important to me as I have struggled to maintain a positive exchange with my parents. On many occasions, I am unable to confide in my parents on issues that I feel are of concern to me as I am not sure they would understand me.

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Modern psychologists need to explore the influence parents have on their kids and devise better mechanisms to improve this relationship. Parents who can interact better with their kids have an exchange system where communication is valued from both the child and the parent (Clark 34). Many millennial parents should also be wary of the different generations and use modern tools such as social media and technology to enhance a relationship with their children. Parents need to be willing to put more effort to get closer to their children. By doing so, they influence important aspects of the child's development. The problem I seek to solve is the communication breakdown existing between parents and their children in the modern age. I hope that by researching the problem and offering solutions, therapists can develop tools to improve modern parent-child exchanges. Although various theories on parenting already exist, it is important to develop new parenting tools for use in the modern age.

Brand, Paul L.P., and Sandra van Dulmen. "Can we trust what parents tell us? A systematic review." Pediatric Respiratory Reviews, vol. 24, 2017, pp. 65-71, http://postprint.nivel.nl/PPpp6530.pdf. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019

Summary

Brand and Sandra evaluate a key instrument in pediatric consultations. They dwell on the use of the self-regulation theory advanced in pediatric studies to help parents assess the psychological development of children. The use of historical information provided by parents concerning their children is a common practice in many pediatric applications. The concern is, however, that some of the historical data on the children offered by the parents is not entirely accurate. Medical practitioners can, however, not question the validity of such information. Parents need to be very accurate with the data they offer on their child's behavior and health concerns. It is especially critical to ensure that they maintain a relationship with their children to get the most accurate and recent data they can get from the toddlers. Simply observing children without engaging them in conversations is not an accurate way for parents to gather medical information.

Evaluation

This study is taken from the perspective of a pediatric. It offers the flip argument to the notion that children in the modern age are truant, disrespectful, and inconsiderate. The pediatricians seek to question the information offered by parents concerning the health of their children. This source is important as it helps present the case for the child, in that the parent can be wrong as well. The study will not have any leanings, in terms of the perspective from which to lay out arguments. Having a perspective that disagrees with the parent or supports the children is thus important. This study presents this perspective, which is important in the formulation of the argument that parents are not always right when it comes to handling the modern child. It will thus be important to argue from both perspectives, and since data from children cannot be used in research, the pediatrician's perspective is welcomed.

Clark, Lynn Schofield. The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 2013. https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DmuVaM3JxuAC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=Clark,+L.S.:+The+Parent+App:+Understanding+Families+in+the+Digital+Age.+Oxford+University+Press,+New+York+(2013).+doi:+10.1080/08838151.2013.875025+Google+Scholar&ots=jRTgcu3Loz&sig=_IfiQinRcHB2hQHlZlw23tx9v_A&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed 6 Dec. 2019

Summary

The Parent App is the author's approach to exploring the modern family. The digital age has essentially changed how families associate with one another. The book explores issues parents in the modern age have to go through while raising teenagers. There are various concerns such as; cyberbullying, strict parents and shunned over-achievers, identity crisis among the youth in the media age, over-reliance on social media, as well as the issue of ethnicity. The book seeks to offer parental advice to modern parents struggling to raise children in a highly unpredictable environment. Parents are, for instance, advised to embrace social media and allow their children to begin using technology and devices such as smartphones at a young age. The book shuns the idea of deterrence and strict parenting, arguing that it does not work in the modern age. Parents are asked to take an approach that lets the child learn a lot about life from observation than by consistently lecturing them on what to do and what not to.

Evaluation

The choice of this reference is based on the practical information offered by the author. Indeed, the writer approaches the issue of modern parenting from a practical sense. Being a parent herself, Lynn Schofield explains how she managed to change her approach to parenting from being a strict and deterrent parent to a more understanding one. She explores her parental journey, which offers a good insight into this research. The issues addressed in the book will form important aspects for analyzing the modern parenting problem in the final study. Reading the book offered me a lot of ideas on issues that need to be addressed, especially concerning how to minimize the cases of mistrust between parents and their children. The book thus offers a host of practical solutions that will be used in the eventual research.

Cossar, Jeanette, et al. "You've Got to Trust Her, And She's Got to Trust You': Children's Views on Participation in the Child Protection System." Child & Family Social Work, 2016, pp.103-112, HYPERLINK "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cfs.12115" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cfs.12115. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019

Summary

The study by Cossar et al. focuses on the sensitive issue of child protection. Indeed, where children find that there is professional intervention on their families, it is often an issue of psychological impact. Many parents in the United Kingdom find themselves in such a state thanks to the inability to offer the requisite care for their young ones. The study explores how trust can be established between a child and the child protection officers to ensure that they offer the truth about their condition at home. The system is designed to take a lot of input from the children, often in the presence of their parents. For an effective child protection system to be in place, there should be a system of trust between the would-be guardians and the children. The study explores different approaches the government child service officers take to improve the relationship they have with these children.

Evaluation

The contribution of this study is the vast pool of data concerning children in child service systems. It is important to evaluate how trust systems are established between the children and the apparent strangers that seek their best interests. A good starting point for this research is to evaluate case studies of how persons who do not have parental authority are eventually able to establish trust with children that are not theirs. The approaches taken by these persons offer a critical understudy for modern approaches to parenting. Developing and establishing a trust system is quite difficult for most modern parents. This study seeks to apply the methodologies represented by Cossar et al. to offer a solution to the challenge of modern parenting. The relevance of this source to the eventual study cannot be understated. This information will be very fundamental to the eventual research as it will provide ways to enhance positive relationships between parents and children.

Schiano, Diane J., and Christine Burg. "Parental Controls: Oxymoron and Design Opportunity." International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2017, pp. 645-652, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317172802_Parental_Controls_Oxymoron_and_Design_Opportunity. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019

Summary

Parental control is the theme of the study. The focus is on understanding how modern parental control technologies (PCTs) have been effective in deterring abuse of social media by the children. The study not only assesses the role parents play in the establishment of these controls, it essentially presents the argument that most of the controls have to be done by the children themselves. Indeed, it is more of an oxymoron in the modern age to use the term 'parental control' as it is often ineffective. The study seeks to challenge the very designers developing social media applications to place more controls to guard children against explicit content. Many parents from the study thus admit that they have been unable to gain the respect and trust they deserve from their children. This is because of the mutual understanding between modern parents, and their child has broken down to the point that they cannot instruct their children and expect obedience from them.

Evaluation

The need for parental controls has long been an approach to dealing with the internet. It is, however, apparent that in the media age, more parents are unable to enforce these controls. This study is important in emphasizing the point that parents need to approach regulation from a different point of view. The study helps formulate the argument that a more democratic approach to parenting would be effective in the modern age, as opposed to authoritarian parenting. There is significant data from the study that, indeed, parental controls do not work. It is the onus of the media companies developing social applications to ensure that they prevent young children from poisoning their minds with negative content. This study seeks to advance the argument that there is a need for new ways to parent modern children. In an era where children are exposed to a lot of information, parental controls indeed do not work.

Works Cited

Brand, Paul L.P., and Sandra van Dulmen. "Can we trust what parents tell us? A systematic review." Pediatric Respiratory Reviews, vol. 24, 2017, pp. 65-71, http://postprint.nivel.nl/PPpp6530.pdf. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019.Clark, Lynn Schofield. The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 2013. https://books.google.co.ke/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DmuVaM3JxuAC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=Clark,+L.S.:+The+Parent+App:+Understanding+Families+in+the+Digital+Age.+Oxford+University+Press,+New+York+(2013).+doi:+10.1080/08838151.2013.875025+Google+Scholar&ots=jRTgcu3Loz&sig=_IfiQinRcHB2hQHlZlw23tx9v_A&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019.

Cossar, Jeanette, et al. "You've Got to Trust Her, And She's Got to Trust You': Children's Views on Participation in the Child Protection System." Child & Family Social Work, 2016, pp.103-112,https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cfs.12115. Accessed 4 Dec. 2019.

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