The Importance Of Constructive Parenting

I believe that my parenting style determines the outcome of my daughter. That is why I feel it’s important to determine early on what kind of parent you want to be. It is important to identifying your parenting style because the results will produce an effective or ineffective adult. The results will determine and dictate how well your child will develop capability in dealing with a variety life scenarios. Constructive parenting is having positive reinforcements such as: helping you child understand the difference between punishment and discipline. Which means having an active dialogue and discussing with your child correct way of being productive and redirecting them if needed. A destructive form of parenting in my opinion is a form of punishment …show more content…
The parent doesn’t give the child any reasoning to the rule and they use loaded stated such as well “my parents did it to me and look how I turned out.” An example of an authoritarian parent is a dad forcing his son to play basketball but his passion is playing the piano because he wants to be a pianist when he grows up. Another parenting style is permissive parent. A permissive parent does not disciple the child and would rather be the child friend instead of the parent. The roles are not properly identified and the line can be easily crossed. An example of permissive parent is allowing your child to hang out with you at the mall and not do homework or study for a test. If the child is failing a subject the parent responds with the comment “who needs history, this stuff already happened.” The last for of parenting that I want to mention is neglectful parenting style. The parent is more consumed with their life and not the child. The child id force to take care of his/her self without much assistance and guidance. Ann example of a neglectful parent would be leaving your 10 year old at home without supervision so you can party with