Teen Living Notes

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Teen Living Notes

• Obj. 3.01 Factors that affect relationships.
• Obj. 3.02 Consequences risks of youth parenting.

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Parenting Parenthood

• Parenting The name given to the process of
  raising a child either through birth or adoption.
• Development An increasing skill in one or a
  combination of abilities. These include physical,
  emotional, social, and mental skills.

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Parenting Parenthood

• Parenting Requires
• DEDICATION a deep level of continued
  commitment, no coffee break.
• FLEXIBILITY being ready and able to adapt to
  new and different circumstances. Things change
  all the time.
• NURTURANCE loving care, attention, support, and
  encouragement. To love, teach, and guide them,
  and further their development. A parent is a
  child first teacher.
• GUIDANCE words and actions that adults use to
  influence childrens behavior.

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Parenting Parenthood

• Learning refusal skills helps teenagers practice
  sexual abstinence. These are techniques to
  resist negative pressure effectively. When you
  are in a situation that someone is trying to talk
  you into doing something you really dont want to
  do. Be prepared on what to say and do.
• Plan ahead
• Take your time (stall time)
• Be direct (state how you feel)
• Make eye contact
• Dont apologize (stick to your values)
• Suggest an alternative (reverse the pressure
  suggest another activity)

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Parenting Parenthood

• When 2 people compromise, both give up something
  to get something.
• The way you feel about yourself is called your
  self-esteem.
• People with a poor self-concept tend to have a
  negative image of themselves.
• The best way to gain another persons trust is to
  be honest.

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Parenting Parenthood

• Being fired from a job is a very stressful
  situation.
• If a student becomes pregnant, a financial
  consequence (cost) could be losing a scholarship
  to attend college.
• Babies born to youth parents are more likely to
  have lower than average birth weight.

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Parenting Parenthood

• Dropping out of high school to earn money for
  child support payments will affect ones future
  consequence.
• Teenagers who sign an abstinence pledge agrees to
  postpone sexual activity until after marriage.
• A youth parent giving up activities with friends
  affects the social development of a teenager's
  life.

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Parenting Parenthood

• The younger a girl is when she has a baby, the
  more likely she is to live in poverty.
• Children born to youth parents are at a greater
  risk for being abused and neglected.
• Toxemia is a physical development that could
  occur during pregnancy. (Very serious condition)
  Could take the life of a mother baby.

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Parenting Parenthood

• Smoking a pack of cigarettes could cause harm to
  an unborn baby.
• An emotional consequence involved when youth
  parenting are feelings of isolation, despair, and
  frustration.
• Dating serves a significant purpose because it
  allows people to learn what qualities you like in
  a partner.
• In some cases, when a 16 year old tells their
  parents that they are pregnant, the parents will
  kick them out from the home. The young girl will
  not have a job or any money available. She can
  go to social services for assistance.

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Parenting Parenthood

• When a young girl refuses to believe that she is
  pregnant, and she continues to attend weekend
  parties and drink alcohol this type of behavior
  is putting her unborn baby at a high risk for
  developing fetal alcohol syndrome, which is a
  mentally handicap child.
• when a young girl is pregnant she will not be
  able to take any medicine without the doctors
  approval, not even a aspirin for a headache.
  This can cause the baby (at risk) to be born with
  birth defects.

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Parenting Parenthood

• When you can take other peoples ideas opinions
  seriously you are showing respect.