Thought Paper

But it is depending on children age and parent’s skill. Significant to parents how to control their negatives behavior for example making strengthen relationship between children and parent or parent’s mental health being great.

The four primary parenting styles are Authoritarian, Permissive, Authoritative, and Uninvolved parenting styles. Authoritarian parents are very controlling and strict with their children. They expect obedience form their children and don’t tolerate expressions of disagreement. In contrast, Permissive parents are more relaxed and provide inconsistent feedback. They require little of their children and don’t see themselves as responsible for their children’s behavior. They also don’t set limits or control over their children. Authoritative parents are firm and set clear and consistent limits for their children. While they tend to be strict they show love and emotional support for them as well. These parents tend to reason with their child as to why they should behave a certain way. These parenting styles also encourage the child to be independent. The fourth parenting style is uninvolved parenting style. These parents show interest in their children and display indifferent or rejecting behavior towards them. They detach emotionally and only see themselves as providers of materials goods such as shelter, food, and clothing.

All parents have their own methods of raising their children. Some parents are more lenient, some strict, and some are absent entirely. What effect does this have on the children as they grow into adulthood? Studies have shown that different parenting styles can affect a child’s psychological development as well as the child’s overall psychological well-being. Parenting style can determine whether the child will have issues such as problematic behavior or poor school performance. This can also remain to have an effect on these children later in life that can lead to serious problems like substance abuse or depression. There are three recognized styles of parenting: authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive. Each style has different effects on the children, and continues to affect them into adulthood. It can also often be found that in households with multiple children, parents use different parenting methods for each child. These differences can also have profound effects on the development of the children.

There are several distinct parenting styles noted in psychology. But where did they come from? Diana Baumrind has been accredited for formulating these specific parenting styles. Born in 1927, Diana Baumrind later pursued a degree in psychology. She became a well-known developmental psychologist. In the early 1960’s, Diana Baumrind performed research on childcare, which later she became famous for. In her study, her team and herself kept up with more than 100 middle class families with preschool age children. She used interviews and pure observation as her primary research techniques. Diana Baumrind’s main goal of her study was to “formulate and evaluate

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.

• Evaluate the different types of parenting styles and their influence on development during infancy and early childhood.

These parents are mostly opened to suggestions and the child is usually in control of parent. These parents tend to avoid confrontation by any means necessary. The great benefit of that parenting style is that they are usually very nurturing and loving and will do anything to make their child happy. The negatives, of this parenting style however, over power that benefit. Because only a few rules are set for the children of permissive parents, and the child feel as if the rules do not exist.

            In this paper I will be looking at multiple popular parenting styles found and studied in psychology. There are four common parenting styles found in most homes which include, Permissive, Authoritarian, Neglecting, and Authoritative. I will be defining only two of these styles, and giving examples of actions found in each, discussing the outcomes as well as, identifying which parenting style is most recommended for parenting. And how we as Christians view this topic as well.

Frist, Authoritative Parenting is considered the most successful way to parent a child (Hughes 2013). It is considered the most successful way to parent children because it has a high parent involvement rate and the levels of control are well balanced. These types of parents have very realistic expectations and limits for their kids. The parents also have a more natural way to approach consequences when needed. Authoritative parents tend to listen to the child’s point of view when they are talking, and allow the child more opportunities to be independent. These parents will have set rules that have to be followed and will explain their reasons why the rules are there, but also explain what the consequences will be if they choose not to follow the set rules. The parents in this category are also more lenient with the children as well. They will bend and allow exceptions to their set rules and consequences in certain situations. For example these

Parenting style is one of many factors that strongly influence the child's development and their behaviors. Researchers have demonstrated many times that the environment in which children are raised has significant effects on a child’s intellectual, physical, social, and emotional development. For decades, researchers have also been interested in how parents influence their children's development, and one approach in this area is the study of what has been termed as parenting style. In 1971, clinical and developmental psychologist, Diana Baumrind came up with three main categories of parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative and democratic. Parents can be a mixture of three styles or fall into one or more categories.

What are the three main parenting styles? Is one style better than the others? Explain, and explain why a parent may change their style as their child gets older.

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

The most successful child-rearing practice is the authoritative style. This particular style involves warm, caring, attentive and patient parenting. Parents are also perceptive to their child’s needs. All these characteristics allow for a close bond with their child. In addition, they permit gradual autonomy by allowing their children to make decisions once they show signs readiness. Parents who use this style offer encouragement to express how they feel and think without judgement. If disagreements occur, parents involve them in joint-decision making. Parents place reasonable demands on their child, but at the same time offer explanations as to why they are enforced. Because of this, children are normally more compliant.

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.

by parents, and for the most part with children’s best interest in mind which is one of the main similarities. The parent does not choose a parenting style the parenting style chooses the parent. However, knowledge of the parenting styles and the effects of all three will help parents decide how they can raise their children in a way that is most