Comparing Parenting Styles

Most parents are always looking for insights into helping their troubled children. Would it not be perfect if you had a manual or a guide that addresses every single problem you faced on daily basis or perhaps solutions to each parenting situation? Parenting styles consists of strategies that are based upon changing a bad behavior in a positive and respectful manner, but also include the punishment and power enforcements commonly used as discipline that affect dramatically children’s development, conduct, and emotional wellness; therefore, there are significant differences between implementing the time-out technique (a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break) and the physical approach of spanking (to strike, a child with the open hand, on the buttocks, as in punishment). The time-out method establishes specific positive discipline when parents properly set boundaries. The effectiveness rises upon the clarity of the rule stated and the precise consequence of noncompliance with unaccepted behavior. For example, a preschooler is told to pick up his/her toys and put them in the toybox before bedtime. If he/she does not listen, and instead ignores the order given, he/she will be punished. The parent will also explain …show more content…
The parent is sending a confusing message. In fact, the adult is creating mental chaos as the child seeks out for associations and meaning based on the parent’s actions, which are hard to discern under a situation driven by frustration. More importantly, this punishment method is not teaching a significant lesson nor skills are being built to make the child think critically about stressful situations in life. It creates a problem, rather than a permanent solution. The preschooler is learning a temporary lesson instead of an instructive reprehension, and consequently, it will cause the unwanted behavior to occur more