RELATIONSHIP WITH PARENTS: INTERVIEWS

Relationship with Parents: Interviews



Relationship with Parents: Interviews

Introduction

Caregiving is the act of providing hands-on or supervisory assistance to an individual with a disability who has difficulty performing the basic tasks needed to sustain life in the community. Millions of individuals worldwide, both young and old, have physical, mental, and/or emotional problems that make it difficult or impossible for them to perform the day-to-day tasks of life. While a minority turn to formal caregiving services to assist them with these tasks (Allen, 2004), the typical type of care that persons with disabilities need on a regular basis does not require specialized training and more often family members and friends take on the role of caregiver. A large percentage of caregivers are women in midlife who have competing demands of family and work. The care that is provided can be as limited as running errands for an elderly person who has difficulty getting around outside, or as intense as around-the-clock care for a child with a developmental disability. At particularly high levels of need, caregiving responsibilities create a great level of burden for the caregiver (Allen, 2004). This paper interviews two male adolescents and two female adolescents regarding their description of and opinions about their relationship with their. Male names are Mathew and Smith. Female names are Carol and Dilshad.

Two Male Adolescents Interviews

Mathew and Smith are of the opinion that in the early stages of life, children learn the most and are shaped by one-on-one relationships. Smith thinks that a primary caregiver also acts as a special teacher to the child and an exclusive expert on him or her (Allen, 2004). This is not just an easy job since the primary caregiver is also responsible for the child's needs and progress, and parents entrust their precious child into somebody else's hands. Here are some pieces of advice on how to be the best and highly reliable primary caregiver. The summary of their views are as follow:

1. Show love and sincerity in abundance. They nourish a child's heart in a way that nothing else can. Children need love and sincerity from their parents and caregivers as much as they need to satisfy basic needs. If you care for a child in a more personal way and are concerned for the child's overall welfare, it will show in the way that you attend to him or her. You will always do what's best for the child and not put the child in jeopardy (Lefley, 1997).

2. Fill the child's basic needs. Babies and young children always need to be vigilantly looked after. Babies in particular, need more intensive, focused care. And since they can only express themselves through crying and other signs of restlessness (either they may be hungry, thirsty, sleepy, uncomfortable, sick, need to be burped or a diaper change), you have to be able to catalogue and interpret the signs that they give away (Lefley, 1997). They need to eat regularly, and eating times and frequency depend on a child's ...