Lemony Snicket said in his final book “We are respecting our parents' wishes…they didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.”( Snicket,2006) Parenting is not also easy. There are the joys of parenting: watching your child walk, run, graduate, hand you a crumpled mess of daisies. But, there are also the struggles: disciplining, potty training, parent-teacher conferences because your five year old brought tampons to school. Encouraging children to develop good eating habits can sometimes fall under struggle. Although all parent want to do well by their children, sometimes a parents will to do the best can lead to later problem. Maternal parenting styles, maternal education, maternal weight and food…show more content… A study done in early 2000 took two hundred and twenty-two primary caregivers, of non-white heritage (48% African–American; 52% Latino), of preschool children. The vast majority of these women had not received higher then a high school degree and were obese. “Participating parents were visited at dinner time on two or three occasions in their homes, at the end of each visit, a packet of parent-report questionnaires (available in English and Spanish) was left for the parent to complete. The completed packet was picked up by staff members at the next observation” (Morrison, 2013, p.…show more content… A study done in 2000 on the relationship between maternal feeding styles and child eating characteristics studded one hundred and ninety-seven mothers and daughters. The study ”hypothesized that mothers' own weight status would influence (1) their investment in weight and eating-related issues, (2) the level of adiposity that children exhibited, (3) their perceptions of their daughters' weight, and (4) their concerns for daughters' weight.” (Scott, 2001, p. 232) The study concluded that due to the mothers overweight status or previous status and the mothers perceived assumption of her daughters weight determined how restrictive and controlling the mother would be. As the mothers perceptions of herself grow stronger, they become projected on to her daughter and she becomes more restrictive and begins to pressure her more often to eat healthier or diet. This is similar to the authoritarian parenting style. The parent becomes: extremely strict in their rules and demands on what for what can be eaten and enforce strict punishments for breaking those guideline. The study Predictors of maternal child-feeding style: maternal and child characteristics can be applied to other maternally perceived difficulties and not solely on daughters. Mothers perceived assumptions on motherhood, nutrition, eating habits and body
