Permissive Parenting Style In The Glass Caste

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.

There are many different kinds of parents. There are parents that are nice to their kids, spoil them and give them anything they want. On the other hand, there parents that are mean to their kids, make them do all the house work and provide bad living conditions for their children. The Walls parents would fall on the bad of the parent scale for many reasons. First both of the Walls parents are out of touch with reality. Second the parents act like kids and the kids have to act like responsible adults. Finally the parents are selfish, and care more about themselves than their own children. Both Rex and Rosemary Walls are unfit to be parents to the Walls children.

A reason why they are bad parents is because the Walls children dad, Rex, would constantly get drunk at bars using the very little money they had and would leave the kids with nothing. Not only did Rex spend needed money on alcohol, he also came home in violent rages after being at the bars all night. Jeanette describes, “ he broke windows, and smashed dishes and furniture until he’d spent all his anger” (The Glass Castle 112). The family already had the issue of Rex not being wise about his money spending and now they had the issue of him being extremely violent. Although Rose Mary and the children handled his drunken furies very well, it still scared and angered them very much that he would leave the house and come back drunk and violent, risking that under

Throughout the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls all psychological premises of parenting paradigms are shown but the most fitted paradigm would be the permissive parenting paradigm because Rosemary and Rex Walls acted more as friends than parents, left their kids to self-regulate, and did not require mature behavior. Permissive parenting includes that the parent “act more as a friend than a parent” (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”) and throughout The Glass Castle there is many evidence that indicates this. In one scene Jeanette is describing the relationship with her dad and neighboring children, “Kids from the Tracks came knocking at the door, and when I answered, they asked, ‘can your dad come out and play?’” (59). This is a prime example of permissive

I made the decision they were of that parenting style from the information on what was given in the article “The Four Styles of Parenting” by Kendra Cherry. In that style of parenting, they rarely discipline their children, “They are nontraditional and lenient” (Cherry, The Four Style of Parenting). “The only rule was that we had to come home when the streetlights went on” (Walls 59). The children did not really have any rules. When they did

The positive outcomes of the Walls parenting methods were largely the important values the children learned. They learned the value of standing together as a family, and the importance of having something to aspire for as they matured. The children also learned the value of appreciation, loyalty and forgiveness. The Walls children survived many

The Walls exhibit very particular parenting styles in the Glass Castle. More than anything else their parenting style is authoritarian. The Walls family do not have many rules but the few rules they do are up for debate within the family. Rex and Rosemary have very high expectations for how their children act. They expect their children to act against the grain from modern society, they don’t care about what people think. They’re drifters and expect their kids to go with the flow and reject things that go against their way of living. One might assume while reading the Glass Castle that Rex and Rosemary’s parenting style would be uninvolved but when Jeanette and Brian burned down that shed, Rex explained to them that there’s a place in a

In the memoir The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, demonstrates a certain type of parenting that may be uncommon. The Walls parents have a different type of parenting style. They want their kids to learn from their own mistakes, teaching them right from wrong. The certain parenting style that relates to them would be permissive parents. Permissive parenting, have few demands to make of their children. These parents rarely discipline their children because they have relatively low expectations of maturity and self-control (Cherry, The Four Styles of Parenting). The kids had to learn to fend for themselves on their own because their parents weren’t going to hand it to them. “None of us kids got allowances. When we wanted money, we walked along

After witnessing the many adventures of the Walls’ family through the context of The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I have noticed the parenting styles they use can be best described as Uninvolved using the four lens’s from the article “Parenting Styles: What they are and why they Matter’’. The four lens’s provided about parenting are: Permissive, Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Uninvolved. Permissive parents are friendly towards their kids and have a free range of limits for them, Authoritative parents have clear rules and guidelines that they like you to follow but don’t heckle you if you make a mistake. The other two types differ from the other two styles because Authoritarian parents are known as ‘’Punishers’’ with high demands, while Uninvolved parents are neglectful and not there

In the autobiography, “The Glass Castle” written by Jeannette Walls many different paradigms are present when it comes to Jeannette’s parents. However the uninvolved parent paradigm is most consistently exhibited by both Rex and Rose Mary Walls. The easiest way to identify an uninvolved parent according to (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”) is low or lack thereof communication. In a scene where the walls family is driving to Phoenix to move in with the children’s grandmother once again (on Rose Mary’s side), Jeanette discovers that the grandmother had been dead for months and she had not been informed by either of her parents. She asks, “Why didn’t you tell us?”; “There didn’t seem any point” responded her mother (92). This quote

Parenting Paradigms of The Glass Castle The parenting style that is most exemplified by Rex and Rosemary Walls in the memoir “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls is the style permissive parenting. The Walls are permissive because they “rarely discipline” (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”) their children. For example, this quote demonstrates how Rosemary does not punish her children; Jeanette recalls, “I’d broken one of our unspoken rules: we were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure” (69).

Rex and Rosemary walls seem to be your, not so average parents. They aren’t fit to be parents because they don’t exceed the proper expertise needed to be a parent/parents. The Walls family is careless of what their children do. They don’t have any rules or restrictions for their kids.

“Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.” ― (Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense, Revised and Updated Edition). Both of these parents are both bad at parenting, but if I had to choose who is a better parent it would have to be Rex. His major flaws are that he is an alcoholic and a big time dreamer. If we took this two flaws out of the equation he could become a good parent. His main goal is to get his family a perfect life that they should deserve, but will never achieve it because of the problems he caused. “Mom gave me a startled look. I’d broken one of our unspoken rules: We were always supposed to pretend our life was one long

Parenting styles have been widely defined by Baumrind into three categories, authoritative, authoritarian and permissive. Parenting styles can be defined as a pattern of attitudes in how parents choose to express and communicate with their children. These styles are categorized based on the level of nurturance, parental control and level of responsiveness (Dwairy, 2004). Authoritative style exhibits high levels of demand, responsiveness and nurturance; authoritarian style exhibits high levels of demand but low levels of responsiveness, permissive style exhibits low levels of demand but high in responsiveness and nurturance (Dwairy, 2004). These parenting styles have been proposed to have a significant impact on a child’s

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