Use these assessments to find out more about your parenting style, family connectivity and other tools that will help create higher awareness and new strategies for creating a healthy family.
Using a combination of measurement scales,
researchers have named four common parenting styles:
authoritative,
authoritarian,
permissive and
neglectful.
Authoritative parenting combines high levels of warmth with moderate
levels of behavioral control (i.e., monitoring and supervision)
and the granting of psychological autonomy to a child. Many researchers
believe that this parenting style is the most productive of connectedness,
although there is probably some variation in the matching of style
and connectedness across ethnic and cultural norms.
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based on the work of Howard Gardner who espouses that there are
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Howard Gardner created a list of seven intelligences.
The first two are ones that have been typically valued in schools;
the next three are usually associated with the arts; and the final
two are what Howard Gardner called "personal intelligences."
Linguistic intelligence involves sensitivity to spoken and written
language, the ability to learn languages, and the capacity to
use language to accomplish certain goals. This intelligence includes
the ability to effectively use language to express oneself rhetorically
or poetically, and language as a means to remembering information.
Writers, poets, lawyers, and speakers are among those that Howard
Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence.
Logical-mathematical intelligence consists
of the capacity to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical
operations, and investigate issues scientifically. In Howard Gardner's
words, it entails the ability to detect patterns, reason deductively,
and think logically. This intelligence is most often associated
with scientific and mathematical thinking.
Musical intelligence involves skill in the
performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns.
It encompasses the capacity to recognize and compose musical pitches,
tones, and rhythms. According to Howard Gardner musical intelligence
runs in an almoststructural parallel to linguistic intelligence.
Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence entails the
potential of using one's whole body or parts of the body to solve
problems. It is the ability to use mental abilities to coordinate
bodily movements. Howard Gardner sees mental and physical activity
as related.
Spatial intelligence involves the potential
to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined
areas.
Interpersonal intelligence is concerned with
the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations, and desires
of other people. It allows people to work effectively with others.
Educators, salespeople, religious and political leaders and counselors
all need a well-developed interpersonal intelligence.
Intrapersonal intelligence entails the capacity
to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and
motivations. In Howard Gardner's view it involves having an effective
working model of ourselves, and to be able to use such information
to regulate our lives.
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