2.1.6.3 The Permissive Parent The permissive parents do not give any strict control over their children
and allows the children to regulate their own activities as much as possible. Basically, such parents are warm but very low in control. They rely on the family
rules to control their children and to be responsible in the mildest ways.
2.1.6 Child Emotional Development and Physical Well-Being
According to Martin and Stendler, one’s health can be affected by one’s emotional state. Sickness may be caused not only by disease but also from one’s
psychological conditions. Further, physical well-being may influence emotional development 46-47. From these statements, it can be concluded that children’s
illness affect the emotional well-being of the child. Additionally, Mohr 47 states that illness restricts children’s activities, which may bring out depressions and
inferiority towards their peers. Further, Hurlock 184-185 proposes that emotions have significance over
children’s life. The importance of emotions is serving as a form of communication, interfering with mental activities, coloring the child’s outlook on
life, affecting social interaction, developing habits, and affecting the psychological climate.
Emotion serves as a form of communication because children’s comprehension and vocabularies are still limited. That is why they express what
they want to say through emotion. They can also determine how they feel from their bodily and facial changes. Concentration, learning, recalling and other
mental activities are affected by unpleasant emotions. Therefore, children perform below their intellectual capacities when they are emotionally disturbed.
How children view their roles in life and their positions in the social group is also influenced by their emotions, whether they are happy, frightened, or
curious. The success of their social adjustments depends on it. Further, emotions affect social interaction in a way that children are encouraged to experience
various emotions, from pleasure to unpleasant emotions. It results in the children development in relation to their social interaction.
Emotional expressions that satisfy children will be repeated and developed into a habit. When children become adults, the habits will be established firmly
that it will be difficult to change them. Children’s emotions also affect the psychological climate of the environments and it affects them. The environment
shows its influence towards children’s emotions that they will act based on what the environment teach them to do.
Post 288 also explains the negative characteristics that may come in children’s development. One of them is rudeness. Basically, it is caused by two
factors, namely parents’ low control and children’s loneliness. The first factor comes from parents’ lack of control and attention that they never tell the
appropriate manners and behaviors to their children. As a result, children become rude because they do not know what good manners are. The second factor,
loneliness, usually happens in a family who only has one child. Children who do not have anyone to share and give tend to be very selfish and self-centered. Being
alone, that children is also inclined to be introspective.
