The Importance Of Parenting Styles

Throughout the entire world parents’ use different parenting styles. The four most common parenting styles are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful. Each parenting style has not only benefits but also negative effects on children. Some parenting styles have worse effects on the child than others. We will explore each parenting style in detail and also give a personal input on each one.
Diana Baumrind was the researcher whose main focus was parenting styles. Her research was known as the Baumrind’s Parenting Typology. Baumrind had four concepts of when it came to parenting. They were responsiveness versus unresponsiveness and demanding versus undemanding. With those concepts in mind she came up with three parenting styles …show more content…
They don’t use physical abuse. This parenting style is both demanding and responsive. The parent is more of a teacher with life lessons. They still have rules like the authoritarian parents but they’re also more flexible with certain rules. They explain the rules to the child but also keep in mind the child’s personal feelings. The way that they punish their child is with time outs. These types of parents follow through with most of their rules and punishments. The child usually responds better with the punishments because they are fair and consistent. These children usually become successful in life and also are self-driven due to the fact that they learn from their mistakes. In 1996, Steinberg stated that since parents are teaching their child on academic success, the child in return gets better grades. Also, good grades are attributed to parents getting involved in the child’s academic life and the give-and-take communication between the parents and child. I completely agree with this type of parenting style because not only is it fair but also teaches the child how to manage their own life. “According to Thinking, the child ranks the highest in self-respect and follow their parents with their faith of God.” I feel that the best way of teaching your child is by giving life examples and also showing them right from wrong. This style prepares the child for the real world …show more content…
During this style the parents just meet the basic needs of the child. For example, the parents supply the child with food, housing, and clothes on their back. The parents are not involved in the child’s life and there is no physical or emotional attachment. There are many reasons why parents become neglectful which stem from stress of financial issues to addiction to illegal substances. The parents get caught up in their own life and forget about their own child. That allows the child to fend for himself. A study was done is 1983 by Maccoby and Martin. It consisted of adolescents of ages 14 to 18 years old and analyzed four areas. The areas were school achievement, problem behavior, psychosocial development, and internalized distress. The results concluded that children with neglectful parents scored the lowest on the tests. I completely disagree with this style of parenting. It’s not fair for the child and no child deserves to have parents like that. I had a friend whose parents were neglectful and he strongly disliked his parents and later ended up in jail. The outcome is usually not good for the child. He was a great kid but since his parents weren’t there for him he went on a different path and unfortunately couldn’t turn back. He never really got a chance to be the person he could have