Early relationships have an impact on the children’s social development because the infant will learn skills such as sharing, respect and turn taking, children will need these skills to enable them to effectively develop relationships with other people later in life. First relationships with the mother is also vital for developing language, which they will use a slowed motion in speech known as “motherese” (Bornstein, 2013) to help the infant learn understand what …show more content…
Particular focus has been on the lack of sensitive parenting if only for a short while this can still impact children’s social and emotional development (Farrington-Flint, Pg79) For example postnatal depression. Research has looked at what effects this had on children throughout life. Murray (1992 cited Farrington-flint, Pg80) found that children went on to develop problems with behaviour, eating and sleeping she also found children struggled building relationships with other people although postnatal depression was not the only cause circumstances such as divorce or changes in the family could have an impact …show more content…
(Georgiou et al 2013). Whereas the permissive approach lacks rules and authority (Baumrind 1967 cited Mckeogh, 2014) this could impact children’s social development because children can become confident with good interaction skills or it can have the opposite effect. The parents believe they are putting the rights of the child first by not enforcing any rules this could leave children vulnerable on the internet for example, they could be exposed to pornography exploitation or cyber bullying (Open University, 2015). Authoritative style is considered to practice good parenting in the UK by allowing children to make choices but offers fair discipline this can impact children’s social development by teaching children respect and valuable skills to enable them to positively build relationships with peers. John Watsons (1878-1958) research influences parenting today for example the positive parenting intervention which uses reward charts to encourage good behaviour and positively punish bad behaviour in which the authoritative style bases it discipline on (Mckeogh, 2014