The purpose of this week's assignment is to create an outline that analyzes the role of parenting in healthy emotional development. Topics that will be included in the plan are: temperament and adaptation, attachment styles and emotional health across the lifespan, and parenting style and discipline. Emotional development is one of the most important attributes of a young child's life, it is the process by which children grow and experience different types of feelings and emotions. . While researching information to analyze the role of parenting in healthy emotional development, I learned that parents play a vital role in shaping and influencing the emotional growth of their children. Parents begin to influence the emotional development of their children from birth. Some people believe that the baby can develop emotions during the fetal phase. For example, when I was pregnant with my first son, I would often become emotional and cry for no apparent reason. However, my mother always told me: "Kitty, this is unhealthy for you and the baby, if you don't stop crying all the time, you will transfer your emotions to this baby and he will cry day and night." A child's emotional development depends on the influence the parent has on the child during his or her early stages of development. There are many things parents can do to help their children develop healthy emotional experiences. For example, parents need to connect with their children on an emotional level, spend quality one-on-one time with them, and maintain consistency to influence their emotion. development. Additionally, parents should help their children learn to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy emotions (Vasquez,...... middle of paper ......e respect for the child, honesty and how to think before acting or breaking a behavior). rules in the future. How parents handle anger and discipline can affect their children's mental, physical, and social development. Swearing, yelling, and hitting are not an effective way to discipline children. In fact, it could have an unhealthy effect on children. emotional development. Again, parents need to spend quality time with their children and monitor their emotions. This could help parents eliminate discipline problems before they get out of hand. In conclusion, I have created three main topics related to the role. of parenting in healthy emotional development. Topics covered include: temperament and coping, attachment styles and emotional health across the lifespan, and parenting style and discipline...