Maria has a daughter who is 13 years old. Maria does not intervene with the career choices her daughter makes. She gives her daughter enough freedom to socialize with her friends and relatives. She also regularly checks on her to see if her daughter’s activities are not threatening to her daughter’s life. This parenting approach by Maria is an example of:_________.
a) assimilation care
b) accommodation care
c) vigilant care
d) authoritative care

Vigilant care is a type of parental approach that aims to reduce the risk behaviors of adolescents. It is a flexible framework that allows parents to be involved in their children when they detect warning signs in the behavior of their children. This kind of supervision is not overbearing, when parents detect a warning signal of a potential negative behavior, they are able to tighten vigilance by being more watchful.

Vigilant care prevents a lot of negative behaviors like truancy, alcoholism, violence, sexual promiscuity, low grades, drug use and so much more.

Therefore the parenting approach by Maria is an example of vigilant care.