When you like someone.
You notice them much more than before. You make eye contact with them at awkward moments. You get butterflies just for seeing them. You smile when they say hi. You laugh at every corny joke they tell you. They’re basically someone that’s “the one” for you. Until they break your heart in the end.
There are Four Types of Child Rearing Strategies: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive, and Uninvolved
“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.” - Elizabeth Gaskell
Studying the outcomes of parenting styles on child development has challenges because each child is different. Children such as siblings raised in the same environment have found to grow up to have different personalities while children raised in different settings can grow up to be like one another. There are a lot of individual variability and personal factors that affects the development of child regardless of parenting styles.
However, psychologists have find some convincing links between parenting styles and outcome behaviors. Below, I’ve broken down the four parenting styles into level of acceptance and involvement, level of control, level of autonomy granting, childhood and adolescence outcomes.
Parenting styles can be divided based on the level of acceptance and control the parent has for the child.
Authoritative
Acceptance and Involvement: Warm, responsive, attentive, patient, and sensitive to child’s needs
Control: Makes reasonable demands for maturity and consistently enforces and explains them
Autonomy Granting: Permits the child to make decisions in accord to readiness. Encourages the child to express thoughts, feelings, and desires. When parent and child disagree, engages in join decision making when possible.
Childhood Outcome: Upbeat mood; high self-esteem, self-control, task persistance, and cooperativeness.
Adolescence Outcome: High Self-esteem, social and moral maturity, and academic achievement.
Authoritarian
Acceptance and Involvement: Is cold and rejecting and frequently degrades the child
Control: Makes many demands coercively, using force and punishment. Often engages in psychological control, withdrawing love and intruding on the child’s individuality
Autonomy Granting: Makes decisions for the child. Rarely listens to the child’s point of view.
Childhood Outcome: Anxious, withdrawn, and unhapy mood; hostile when frustrated; poor school performance
Adolescence Outcome: Less well-adjusted than agemates reared with the authoritative style, but somewhat better school performance and less antisocial behavior than agemates reared with permissive or uninvolved styles.
Permissive:
Acceptance and Involvement: Is warm but overindulgent or inattentive.
Control: Makes few or no demands
Autonomy Granting: Permits the child to make many decisions before the child is ready
Childhood: Impulsive, disobedient, and rebellious; demanding and dependent on adults; poor persistence at tasks and school performance.
Adolescence: Poor self-control and school performance; defiance and antisocial behavior
Uninvolved
Acceptance and Involvement: Is emotionally detached and withdrawn.
Control: Makes few or no demands.
Autonomy Granting: Is indifferent to the child’s decision and making point of view.
Childhood: Deficits in attachment, cognitive, play, and emotional and social skills.
Adolescence: Poor emotional self-regulation; low academic self-esteem and school performance; antisocial behavior.
In summary, research has shown that there are four types of parenting styles: Authoritative, Authoritarian, Permissive and Uninvolved. Though there are much individual variability, research has demonstrated some consistent links in childhood and adolescence outcome behaviors raised by each parenting styles. Most notably, the authoritative parenting style is associated with the most positive outcomes.
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My dad is an authoritarian.
/sigh
Yep, my parents are Uninvolved, Permissive, and Authoritarian…
Goku no
stop
please
your family is worried
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Me studying or doing homework for school
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5 minutes later
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Err’day
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This explains my whole situation at the moment..
I bet the government never expected the next civil war to be led by kids who have never gotten off their computers and seen daylight.
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