Children And Parenting Styles Are Authoritarian, Permissive And Authoritative

An individual’s life and success is most dependent on their family environment and how they were raised. Good parenting is essential for a child’s educational and behavioral success and is a stressed trait throughout the world; however, in different cultures, good parenting can be defined and measured in many contrasting ways. In the United States, parenting and discipline methods have become controversial in the past fifty years, and the methods for raising children have drastically changed in some households.

Children do not come with guidelines or instructions. What they do come with is a crucial set of physical and emotional needs that need to be met. To raise children properly, parents duties are not limited to just food, shelter and protection. Parents are largely responsible for their children’s success in life. Parents are required to teach and educate children. They have to shape knowledge and character into their children to prepare them to face the real world. To be successful with this, parents must provide self esteem needs, teach moral and values and provide discipline that is both effective and appropriate. As the generations have changed, many parenting styles have evolved, as well.

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This paper describes how authoritarian, authoritative and permissive parenting styles affects the behavior of children. There are negative and positive effects that these parenting styles have on the behavior that children develop. While initially this paper expresses the positive and negative effects, this paper will also give the most effective and successful parenting styles in terms of a higher positive youth development (PYD). Also, the parenting styles are tested by Lerner’s five C’s to show which parenting styles are more successful in showing higher PYD levels. Research suggests that children from specific types of parenting styles are more likely to have better attitudes towards education and rules. This indicates that children with certain types of parents may be

Authoritative and authoritarian parenting, or extreme parenting, is defined as “a parenting style that is child-centered, in that parents closely interact with their children, while maintaining high expectations for behavior and performance, as well as a firm adherence to schedules and discipline” (Authoritative Parenting). Authoritarian parents exert control through power and coercion. Although both parenting styles are strict, authoritative parents tend to be stricter and consistent than authoritarian parents. An example of an extreme parent is one whose child must constantly be in a sport, do homework, and does not receive any free time. Extreme parenting techniques are ineffective and can damage growing children. These parenting techniques affect their child’s emotional and mental growth.

Authoritative parents know what they want their children to do, but they also treat them with respect and warmth. Children raised with this parenting style are independent, self-reliant, competent, and tend to do well in school. Authoritarian parents have strict guidelines, are very demanding, and do not respect or communicate well with their children. Their treatment of their children is cold and rejecting. This parenting style tends to cause hostility and resentment in children. The children are less confident, do not do as well academically or socially, and are often anxious and irritable. Permissive-indulgent parents are easy going and have low attempts to control their children. The children are treated with warmth and support. Children raised by permissive parents tend to be resourceful and have high self-esteem. However, research supports the idea that these children have less self-discipline and are less responsible than children from authoritative families. (Permissive Parenting) Rejecting-neglecting parenting involves having low demands for behavior and low attempts to control their children. “The children of neglectful parents are the least competent, responsible, and mature.” (Rathus, pg. 167)

A parenting style is a psychological construct representing standard strategies that parents use with their children rearing. The quality of parenting is more essential than the quantity spend with the child.

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Authoritarian parenting style has an impact – either positive or negative – on children’s social and emotional development. Authoritarian parents generally raise children who are obedient and proficient because they are trained to be one when they were little. Moreover, Marsiglia et al (2007) states that “Children and adolescents from authoritarian families tend to perform moderately well in school and to be less involved in problem behaviors than children and adolescents from permissive families”. They are able to control aggressive impulses and not coercive toward parents (Patterson, 1976, as cited in Singh, 2007)

In my recent psychology class we studied parenting styles. They are grouped into three different categories; authoritarian, authoritative, and overly permissive. This gave me insight into a couple of different programs I’ve watched on television.Authoritarian parents are parents that set strict rules to keep order and they usually do this without much expression of warmth and affection. “They demand obedience to authority.” (Coon & Mitterer, 2010, p. 91) When the child questions the parent, "Because I said so," is often the response. Parents tend to focus on bad behavior, and not positive behavior, and children are scolded or punished for not after the rules. Authoritative parents help their children learn to be responsible for

Per research children raise by authoritative parents have better home, emotional, and social adjustment as to compared to children raised by authoritarian parents (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). Authoritative and permissive parenting style considered healthy. These parents are warm, nurturant and open minded to their children. They allow their children to make decisions in social matters. Permissive parents more likely have few demands and restrictions on their children. They exhibit uncontrolled behavior, rarely punish and low levels of self-reliance (Broderick & Blewitt, p.183 2015). Authoritarian and neglecting-uninvolved parenting style considered unhealthy and negative. Authoritarian parents have control over their child every move. They

The less content, insecure, apprehensive, less affiliative with peers, and more likely to be hostile under pressure children had parents that displayed a more authoritarian style of parenting. That these parents were less nurturing, less involved, offered little reasoning behind decisions, were very firm, expected obedience without question, discouraged expression, and appeared more frightening to their children were given the authoritarian

I will reflect on my own experiences to address this journal. My inmediate family consisted of both of my parents and two siblings (I was the second and middle one). Our family was of a low-socioeconomic status. Nevertheless, we lived in a relatively good neighborhood. My parents, in particular my father used an authoritarian parenting style to raise us. The authoritarian parenting style is a restrictive pattern of parenting in which adults set many rules for their offspring, demand strict obedience, and rely on authority rather than rationale to elicit compliance (Shaffer & Kipp, 2010); physical punishment and other methods of physical discipline are frequently used as means of correction (Secombe, 2011). Nevertheless, it must be said that such practices were common during my upbringing (1970’s to 1980’s). Even

There are many different types of parenting styles, but we are going to compare and contrast authoritarian and authoritative parenting. These two types of parenting have both similarities and differences. We will compare and contrast Authoritarian and authoritative parenting involving their strictness, interaction between the child, and the type of child that is produced from each style of parenting. Authoritarian parenting is very strict.

In the early 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrid conducted a research, analyzing child-parent behavior, seeking to identify parenting styles. The Baumrid study and other further studies identified four main styles of parenting (Miller, 2010): the authoritative parenting style was characterized by fair rules and consequences; The Authoritarian parenting style was characterized by strict rules and harsh punishment; the permissive parenting style was characterized by minimal rules with little or no consequences; the uninvolved parenting style was characterized by no rules, and parent presence was almost non-existent. In this paper, I’m going to look at the authoritarian style of parenting in an attempt to draw out its characteristics and its immediate and later impacts on children impact.