Analysis Of Diana Baumrind's Four Parenting Styles

Diana Baumrind identified four parenting styles which are authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, and uninvolved. Authoritarian parents are controlling, punitive, rigid, and cold. Their word is law, and they value strict, unquestioning obedience. They do not tolerate expressions of disagreement. Permissive parents provide lax and inconsistent feedback. They require little of their children and don’t see themselves as holding much responsibility for how their children turn out. They place little or no limits or control on their children’s behavior. Authoritative parents are firm, setting clear and consistent limits. Although they tend to be relative strict, they are loving and emotionally supportive. They also try to reason with their children, explaining why they should behave in a particular way and communicating the rationale for any punishment they may impose. Authoritative parents encourage their children to be independent. (Feldman, 2014). Due to my resources I will not discuss in-regards to the uninvolved parenting style. How may a parenting style effect your child? …show more content…
For instance, the mother may have the child for 5 days out of the week, in contrast the father may have the child 2 days out of the week. Due to the father not spending a lot of time with the child he may want to please his child on whatever the child asks for. Like, watching television all day, eating candy instead of her meal, not cleaning the mess he/she did, and going to sleep after bedtime. Basically no rules. I think that their way of showing their love is by letting them do whatever they want. Which in reality they are actually harming them instead of helping them. A permissive parent may also be young parents. Parent who still need to mature. I thought single parents may be part of the permissive parenting but the next study I used as my resource states