Parental Influence on the Behavior of a Child

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This paper presents a review of literature concerning the influence that parents have on the behavior of their children and concludes, after examining the literature, that it is essential for parents to spend a lot of time with their children and engage in constructive activities so that they can be emotionally connected with their parents and grow up to be trusting and loving individuals.

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"Furthermore, several researches have been conducted to evaluate the influence of parents in the social behaviors of the children, but very few researches have been conducted to assess the influence of parents in the eating habit of their children. However, lately this subject has gained a lot of importance as obesity is turning out to be a major disease throughout world. One such research had been conducted by Joperd very recently. Joperd (2005) studied 127 families who had children in third, forth and fifth grades. Joperd started his survey by assessing the eating habits of the parents and then subsequently assessed the eating habit of their children. The study revealed that the eating habits of the children had been influenced by their parents. The researcher concludes that while the parents are aware of the consequences of bad eating habits, but they make no efforts to convey the advantages of healthy eating habits to their children and thereby allow their children to suffer from this disease."

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