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Parent Tip of the Week: Parenting Style
Parenting style has a large effect on your child’s development. Read on to learn about the
main types of parenting styles and how they influence children.
There are four general types of parenting styles:
- The Authoritative Parent (a good balance between demand and responsiveness)
If you are an authoritative parent, you are usually nurturing, responsive and
supportive, yet set firm limits for your children. You attempt to control your
children’s behavior by explaining rules, discussing and reasoning. You listen to
what your child has to say but don’t always agree with it.
Children raised by such parents tend to be friendly, energetic, cheerful, self-reliant,
self-controlled, curious, cooperative, and achievement oriented.
- The Permissive Parent (more responsive than they are demanding…in other
words too nice)
If you are a permissive parent, you are warm, but too relaxed. You fail to set firm
limits, monitor your children’s activities closely, and do not ask that your children
behave appropriately for their ages.
Children raised with this parenting style tend to be reckless, rebellious, aimless,
bossy, aggressive, and low in self-reliance, self-control and achievement.
- The Authoritarian Parent (too demanding and direct, but not responsive)
If you are an authoritarian parent, you are not flexible, and you are very
demanding and harsh in attempting to control your children’s behavior. You set
too many rules and require respect and authority. You often punish as a way to
control your children’s behavior.
Children raised with authoritarian parents tend to be bad-tempered, anxious,
fearful, moody, unhappy, easily annoyed, unfriendly, resentful, vulnerable to
stress, and aimless.
- The Uninvolved Parent (low in both being responsive and demanding)
If you are an uninvolved parent, you are unresponsive, unavailable and often
reject your children.
Children raised with this parenting style tend to have low self-esteem and little
self-confidence and look for other, often inappropriate, role models to substitute
for the neglectful parent.
Have a tip you want to share? E-mail Jackie Hirschorn at
hirschoj@mhawestchester.org
with your Parent Tip of the Week!
This material has been adapted by MHA from materials of the ACT (Adults and Children Together Against
Violence) program developed by the American Psychological Association (APA), a scientific and
professional organization that represents psychology in the United States.
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