Authoritative Parenting Style Analysis

According to psychologist Diana Baumrind, there are four different parenting styles: authoritarian, permissive, uninvolved, and authoritative. (p. 339) Authoritarian parenting is a strict form of parenting that demands obedience and respect, but offers little support. Children of authoritarian parents often do not have a healthy relationship with their parents due to the lack of communication. Permissive parents are known as the “cool” parents among adolescents. This parenting style is relaxed and comes with hardly any rules. Permissive parents have a very warm relationship with their child; however, this style is counterproductive in child rearing because they act as a friend instead of a parent who sets boundaries. Uninvolved parenting is the most detrimental to a child’s psychological health. Uninvolved parents are indifferent to their child’s activities, emotional state, and overall well-being. They are neglectful and even reject their children from being a part

The authoritative, authoritarian and permissive parenting style varies between culture and people. Most people use the authoritative parenting style to raise their children without being too strict or too uninvolved. Among the 3 parenting styles, authoritarian parenting was associated with the

Parenting can be challenging for most parents, and we don’t always get it right. Parenting takes time, unconditional love and understanding. Balswick and Balswick, (2014) suggests that “authoritative parenting” is more efficient. The development of a child is a very important and impacts their life overall into becoming a mature reciprocating self. I believe that good parenting starts with prayer, commitment and loving your children unconditionally. Authoritative parents do not let their children get away with wrong behavior, bad attitudes. These children are responsible and will more likely succeed in life.

There are three main types of parenting styles: authoritative, permissive, and authoritarian. There have been many studies conducted in an attempt to gain insight on the efficacy of the parenting styles aforementioned. Studies have found each of the respective types has varying parenting philosophies and effects on the children they are used on. Authoritative parenting is often regarded as the best parenting style and it is characterized as high in warmth and high in control. Authoritarian tends to produce negative results in children, as it is characterized as being low in warmth and high in demand (Sartaj & Aslam, 2010). Permissive parenting yields the worst effect for the outcome of children, characterized by high in warmth and low in control (Aldhafri, 2011). Factors such as culture and child behavior can affect parenting styles but parenting styles influence factors such as academic self-efficacy, behavior and social skills in children, so it is important for parents to be mindful of which style they use. Because of these factors my parents have taken on an authoritative parenting style, which has cultivated

The authoritative parenting is the healthiest and most effective parenting style to help children doing well in academic, social emotion, and behaviors. These parents have high expectations on their children. Meanwhile, they have high standards on their own behaviors, such as be calm, kind, and patient to their children (Lloyd, 2016).

There is not one set way when it comes to parenting and how parents rise their child or children. A psychologist named Diana Baumrind, studied different parenting styles and their effect on child rearing. She came up with three types of parenting styles: authoritative authoritarian, and permissive. Then a fourth parenting style was added by Maccoby and Martin later on uninvolved parenting (Cherry, 2014). I will explain these different styles on the effect they have on a child weather a young child or adolescence.

Were your parents always nice and lenient to your wants and needs or were they demanding and always had high expectations of you? Most people do not really think about what type of parent they are, it just happens naturally but after explaining two of the four parenting styles, it will certainly open a mom’s minds about which type of style they grew up with and which type of parent they are to their children. I am going to explain the similarities and differences between permissive and authoritative parents, this will help mothers identify which type of parent they are and explain the pros and cons of each parenting style.

Thesis: The authoritative parenting style is the most effective style for producing children that have desirable traits, such as good morals, obedience, compassion and responsibility.

Parenting style can influence whether a child succeeds or merely survives. The authoritative parenting style may be an effective parenting style in theory, however like communism, it is not as effective in practice. Children need to learn through friendships and develop social skills. Being able to connect to the outside world expand the mind and imagination, giving the children skills that help them think critically. On the other hand, being a permissive parent can also damage the child’s development. While letting the children succeed on their own, they provide the child with a lack of drive and motivation to achieve.

I was raised by my mother and my auntie so I was exposed on two types of parenting my mother used the authoritarian and my auntie used the authoritative parenting so it was really good because it balance my development. I learned to be discipline and follow

Thinking back to my childhood I remember my parents using authoritative parenting. Each of us knew the rules and when broken we knew there would be consequences. However, now that I am aware of the other two styles of parenting and how each of the styles affect the children later in life my parents most certainly used two different kinds of parenting styles. With us girls they must have stuck with the authoritative parenting the entire time. With the two boys they at some point switched and began to use permissive parenting with them. If I wouldn’t have been raised with authoritative parenting I believe I would be controlling and not as easy-going as I am. When things don’t go my way I look at it as “What can I do to fix this?” and if there

Until now, I have never given much thought to my parent’s style of parenting. I have just always known that it wasn’t right. Reflecting on how different my parenting style is from my parents’ reassures me that I will raise children who are much better adjusted than I was growing up. I am determined to give them every opportunity they deserve, and continue to work on my authoritative parenting style. I want to break the cycle and show my kids what healthy relationships look like, so they will eventually be better parents to their children

Through research published by Jeanne Ballantine and Diana Baumrind I have concluded that the authoritative parenting style is the most ideal style due to the optimal incorporation of both love and

When it comes to parenting everyone has their own way of doing things. Usually parenting is a cycle. People raise their children with some of the same techniques that their parents did. Think about how the children of the different parenting styles grew emotionally, mentally and even academically. The authoritative parenting style was first introduced by Diane Baumrind. She created a new system for classifying a person style of parenting. Parenting styles have two important components which are: the parental responsiveness and parental demandingness. The parental responsiveness; being how the parent responds to the child’s needs. The parental responsiveness is when the parent expects their child to be more responsible and matures. Turns out that no one knew that there was a definition for the way they chose to be a parent. Carol B. Hellman PSY.D said “One of the most important things as adults we can do for young children is to model the kind of person we would like them to be” (2013). Meaning that if you want your children to be lazy then being lazy as a parent is the way to go. Or, If you want your children to good children, and responsible; then as a parent one should be a good responsible parent, and teach the child those core values. The Authoritative Parenting style affects children’s attitudes, behaviors and academic achievements in a positive way.

Major effects on children who were raised under authoritative parents are tends to acquire positive traits compared to authoritarian and permissive parenting style. Positive traits are, (1) children are happier, (2) better emotional regulation skills, (3) good social skills, and (4) they feel appropriate self-control about themselves. Authoritative parenting is known to be the preferred parenting style that puts child into democratic rule without harsh demands or not specified rule (Maccoby, 2016).