Abstract
Objective:
Parental Monitoring ofchildren’s andadolescents’ development is seen as an important andnecessaryparentalskill. Parental monitoring is operationalized as a parental knowledge of children’s dailyactivities. Parents have obtained knowledge as a way of using differentmonitoring sources (parental solicitation, parental control and child disclosure ) about children’s daily activities. In this paper, general terms related to parenting was defi ned. Parental monitoring and monitoring ways which has crucial effect on parenting practices and adolescents’ development were also discussed in the light of the review and the theoratical literature.
Method:
In this paper, dissertations and articles were searched from national and international databases to review theoretical knowledge related to parental monitoring.
Results:
Results indicated that parental monitoring behaviors have a signifi cant role in the children’s and adolescent’ positive development. Based on these results,monitoring have also a vital protective role for antisocial and risky behaviors.
Discussion:
According to the reviewed literature parenting practices and parenting styles were evaulatedas related to each other in addition to being different. In monitoring process of adolescents, child voluntary disclosure and openness to parents’ monitoring efforts were more important than parents’ efforts.
Keywords: Parental monitoring, disclosure, parental solicitation, parental control
