Strict Parenting

Nil’s neglected son experienced a very brief period of an innocent and blithe lifestyle; however, the baby in Carver Raymond’s “Popular Mechanics” is robbed of its adolescence almost immediately. This short story hyperbolizes the effects that a broken relationship has on a child. The couple fights over possession of the child, the woman thinking, "She would have it, this baby" (Carver 1). Throughout the story, the infant is referred to as an “it”, which implies that the baby’s parent’s view him or her as an object rather than a precious life. In the parents’ vain desire to prevail over one other, concern for the child’s safety completely vacates the their minds. As they continue their struggle, the child’s wails grow louder and louder. They

-Dominating/Authoritarian: This is a parent who is a strong believer in rules and provides high expectation for a child’s behavior. These caregivers seldom show affection toward their children. They are harsh when correcting bad behaviors. Kids have low self-esteem.

Parenting is not as easy as it seems. Every expecting family has racing thoughts on the type of parent they would like to become. There are four major parenting styles. Those styles are; authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved. The four parenting styles have different attitudes and behaviors, they play a role in the way the children reacts.

Authoritative parents are sensitive and loving to their child, like permissive parents, however they also demand respect and responsibly from their child, like authoritarian parents. This type of middle ground parenting lies the foundation for emotional stability to be built up in a child. The loving and sensitive parenting fosters stable and assured attachments while it also prevents kids from developing internalizing problems; at the same time, enforcing limits makes children less likely to become involved in drug and alcohol use, juvenile delinquency, or other antisocial behavior. The unstable person, on the other hand, is subject to fairly wide, frequent, often unpredictable mood shifts, harmful impulsivity and inappropriate intense anger

Authoritative parenting is the parenting style that my parents used when I was growing up. Growing up with this parenting style I have become independent and self reliant. Some characteristics of authoritative parents include: listening to their child, letting their child express their opinion, encouraging their children, giving them fair and reasonable consequences, giving their child the opportunity to express their reasoning, having expectations for their children, and most of all showing warmth and nurture to their child.

There are four separate parenting styles which are utilized by parents raising children. They are authoritative, authoritarian, permissive-indulgent, and rejecting-neglecting. The authoritative style is a child-rearing style where parents are restrictive and demanding, yet communicative and warm. Authoritarian is a child-rearing style in which parents demand submission and obedience from the child. Permissive-indulgent is a child-rearing style where the parents are warm and not restrictive. The rejecting-neglecting style is a child-rearing style in which parents are neither restrictive and controlling nor supportive and responsive. The authoritative parents raise the most capable children. Authoritarian parents are cold and rejecting. Permissive-Indulgent parents are easygoing and unconventional. Rejecting-Neglecting are low in support and responsiveness and raise children with

Harsh physical punishment can affect an individual mentally and physically. It is related to child maltreatment in childhood and intimate partner violence in adulthood. Harsh physical punishment consists of pushing, grabbing, shoving, hitting, and slapping. Afifi and colleagues stated that experiencing physical maltreatment in childhood with or without other forms of child maltreatment may make physical violence seem acceptable and may increase the likelihood of violence continuing into intimate partner relationships in adulthood. Child maltreatment includes physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical and emotional neglect, exposure to intimate partner violence, and intimate partner violence in adulthood (Afifi, Mota, Sareen, &

Oregon State University claims that socialization is the development of the learning and understanding of one’s culture and society, along with the understanding of right from wrong, and the knowledge of values and beliefs (Reed, Leslie). The process of socialization begins during infancy so it is the parent’s or caretakers of the child who have the biggest impact on how the child is socially developed. Parent’s and guardians have the biggest and most important role in how a child is socialized because, “As we know human development is affected by 50% genes and 50% environment” (Human-Hendricks, Anja R. and Nicolette V. Roman). It is the parents who provide the genes and the environment for their child, therefore, they have the most important

Authoritarian parenting style is letting the child know that you are in charge and it is my way or the highway. The parents have all the control and does not let the child make decision and does not set them up to be able to make their own choices in their latter years. Authoritative parenting also referred to as positive parenting (232) is letting the child explore their individual wants and needs while the parent is encouraging this behavior. This parenting style is encourage by experts because it is the most effective (232). It is being a well-rounded parent that believes in being their for your child emotionally, setting rules, and wanting your child to be independent. Parent’s desires are set in third-person terms so the child is able

Life experiences and parenting styles that our parents have been exposed to shape the type of parenting style that they have developed. A theory developed by Baumrind suggests that there are four different styles of parenting which are authoritarian, authoritative, neglectful, and indulgent. In families’ characteristics and teachings are typically passed on from generation to generation and the way that our parents were raised are typically the same way that they will choose to raise us. Typically, a parent is not just one type of parenting style they are typically a mix of parenting styles which is good for them to know how to react differently in various situations.

Our hypothesis was that there is a positive relationship between authoritative parenting style and parental expectations dimension of perfectionism. The type of statistical test used to testify this prediction was Pearson Product Correlation Coefficient because of the type of data we have. The range of actual scores is from 6-20 for scores on the authoritative parenting style and the parental expectations dimension of perfectionism. The means of the total authoritative parenting style is M=16.63 and M=15.28 for the total parental expectations. The standard deviation for authoritative parenting style is SD=3.60 and SD=3.89 for parental expectations. Alpha is the probability level used to indicate the highest value that allows researchers to

How you raise a child from birth to when they go out on their own will affect their decisions and behavior for the rest of their lives. A lot of parents don’t think about having a certain style but, we find that everyone tends to fall into four separate categories. Authoritative, indulgent, neglectful, and authoritarian are the main four categories of parenting. It is very important to be mindful of how you raise your child, because the model you use to parent will affect your children, you, and most likely their children.

What is love? Love as defined in Oxford Dictionary is a strong feeling of affection: babies fill parents with intense feelings of love’ ‘their love for their country’. Basically, there are many types of love. The most common type of love that we know and widely we use by most parents for their children is tough love. Tough love also is a philosophy which is to help parents in manage their children in any scope. This term also refers to numerous parent’s support in create the principles of tough love. It is for support the parents in dealing teen those always problematic.

The setting of this observation was held at home and the situation was the interaction between a mother and her daughter while the mother tried to feed the child. The mother, observed to display authoritative parenting style because she is not as controlling and demanding as compared to a parent with authoritarian parenting style. The mother also allow the child to explore and make her own decision based on her own reasoning. The mother tried to feed her 4 years old daughter which refuses to eat her dinner as she was so engrossed in watching the cartoon. The child's temperament was believed to be slow to warm up as initially she was very persistent in refusing to eat and responded with resistance but after much convincing and motivation from

Topic: How parenting styles impact depression. Purpose: The aim of thiz research is the measurement, description, study of perceived parenting styles of adolescents themselves and linkages with the symptoms of depression in teens as well as analysis of the relationship between them.