Baumrind's Life-Span Development

The psychologist Diana Baumrind identified three categories of parenting styles and linked them to children’s behaviors. “Authoritative” parents is one example, parents that have strong control when necessary, but they explain why and allow them to have their own opinion.

Concept 2 - Parenting Styles There's three parenting styles there's authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive. An authoritarian parent is someone who is strict, imposing many rules and not nurturing. An authoritative parent is someone who is allowing discussion with the kids, placing limits and nurturing. An permissive parent is someone who is inconsistent with few rules and very loving. For me, my mothers parenting style is authoritative, she can be strict, being not too

An example of this parenting style would be a parent who wishes to be their child’s friend. Then there is the permissive-indifferent which is described as insensitive and not controlling. This would allow much lenience for the children. An example of this would be a parent neglecting their children. The last parenting style that Baumrind has researched is the authoritative parenting style.

Diana Baumrind is a researcher who focused on the classification of parenting styles. Baumrind’s research is known as Baumrind’s parenting typology”. In her research, she found what she considered to be the four basic elements that could help shape successful parenting: responsiveness vs. unresponsiveness and demanding vs. undemanding. Parental responsiveness refers to the degree to which the parent responds to the child's needs in a supportive and accepting manner. Through her studies Baumrind identified three initial parenting styles: Authoritative parenting, authoritarian parenting and permissive parenting. Baumrind believed that parents should be neither punitive nor aloof. Rather, they should develop rules for their children and be affectionate with them. These parenting styles are meant to describe normal variations in parenting, not deviant parenting, such as might be observed in abusive homes. In addition, parenting stress can often cause changes in parental behavior such as inconsistency, increased negative communication, decreased monitoring and/or supervision, setting vague rules or limits on behaviour, being more reactive and less proactive, and engaging in increasingly harsh disciplinary behaviours.

Baumrind’s believed that there were four styles of parenting, which these four styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive-uninvolved and permissive-indulgent. Which Authoritarian is when parent’s rigid rules and they demand their kids to have

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Authoritarian is only one of three parenting styles that Baumrind details. The other two styles include authoritative and permissive. These two variations in parenting styles were seen in the way my relatives and friends’ parents approached parenting. I observed how the parents of my close friend handled parenting. They maintained control over aspects in my friend’s life like school and chores but allowed the freedom to make decisions in areas of social activities. The most striking difference between my parents and my friend’s is the use of reasoning and the expression of warmth. Her parents provided justification behind their commands and or punishments while maintaining a sense of love and affection. The bond and love that is evident between my friend and her parents is not as strong in the relationship between my parents and me. The style that her parents exhibit is known as authoritative because of their focus on some parental control, use of reasoning and warmth. While on the other hand, my cousins raised their children in a completely different manor using a permissive parenting style. While they provide obvious love and affection towards their children, they fail to exert control and regulations. They did not have any real sense of rules in their household. Their children tend to act and do whatever they wanted with little to no repercussions.

There are four types of parenting styles that we’ve learned during this course and they are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive and uninvolved. All of these parental styles are different such as an authoritarian is a type of parent that establishes rules and expects children to follow them without exceptions and believes

Growing up my parents used the authoritative parenting style. They were warm but were firm. Communicating was not a one way street when it came to my parents. It worked both ways if you wanted the respect and freedom to be able to do things then

There is Authoritarian, Authoritative, and Permissive. Baumrind is also cited in the journal “Parenting Style as a Moderator for Students’ Academic Achievement.” (Ishak, Low & Lau, 2011) However the parenting styles as listed by Baumrind in the journal are distinct in character, and much through the levels of responsiveness and demandingness each style has. Maccoby and Martin, who are also cited in the second listed journal, had captured the important elements. Parental Responsiveness is parallel to the emotional support a parent would show to the child to their special needs and demands. The parent would listen to the child’s interests and goals, which can result as motivation for academic achievement if listened to properly and shown the right motivation for achievement. Parental responsiveness can be thought of as a parent “responding” to their child’s need of emotional support. Parental demandingness refers to the expectations of that parent of the child. This can range from expecting higher grades, better performance and excellent behavior. (Ishak, Low & Lau, 2011) Authoritative Parenting is high in both demanding and responsiveness. The parent would have high expectations of the child in the household and classroom, along with rules however, with the high level of responsiveness there is more communication and reasoning behind the expectations and more emotional support to ensure a healthy relationship

Research has shown that children typically replicate the behavior of their parents. Parenting styles come in multiple categories such as authoritative, neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian. In which each parenting style has a different effect on each individual. While one child may succeed with a certain parenting style another may not. Authoritative parenting incorporates high responsiveness and highly demanding. In contrary neglectful parenting lacks responsiveness and is uninvolved in the child’s life. Likewise, neglectful parenting is permissive parenting in which has low demands. Furthermore, the authoritarian parenting follows a more military-like way of teaching. With that, the authoritarian style of parenting consists of high expectations and little to none feedback on child's progression. In all each parenting style such as authoritative, neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian shapes a child differently.

Parenting styles have an effect of the early adulthood stage in terms of physical, cognitive and emotional development. For instance, cognitively, the authoritarian style grooms children obedient but their social happiness is impacted upon. Permissive parents demand less from their children. The resulting adults are less happy and have problems with authority. Authoritative style expects conformity to rules and regulation. In turn, the resulting adults are happy, capable and successful. Uninvolved parenting style has few demands on children and they grow up carefree and not responsible adults.

The styles that Dr. Baumrind recognized were based on two aspects of parenting; parental responsiveness and parental expectation (demandingness). The aspects are determined by the parent’s characteristics on the actions towards the children. Too much or too little of either aspect of parenting can conflict with the child’s learning and behavior. A single selection of the four parenting styles is approached after determining the degree of each of the two aspects. Although there is not a perfect match for any parent, most will tend to push towards a

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1. Authoritarian Parents - This parenting style is one where the rules are set and if broken children are punished. There is no explanation of why the rules exist. These parents have high demands and expect their orders to be obeyed. It is believed to be the main style of parenting in the 1950 's which is said to have created the rebellious baby boomers of the 60 's and 70 's. Children do not make any of their own choices.