The type of parenting style that I researched are Permissive, Authoritative, Authoritarian, and Uninvolved.
The first style that will be discuss is the Permissive Parent. The Permissive Parenting Style is high on love and low on limits. Permissive parents are highly attuned to their child's developmental and emotional needs but have difficulty setting firm limits. For a example Bedtime is at 7 one night and 10 the next. They use reason and negotiation to gain their child's compliance. They use their attachment and bond with their child to teach right from wrong.
This is not to say that the permissive parent is an abusive or ineffective parent. Children often do comply with permissive parents as a result of the relationship. It is a little known fact that children do want to please their parents and are more likely to follow the directions of someone they know, love, and trust versus someone they do not know.
Unfortunately for permissive parents there are several weaknesses. These weakness make this style of parenting ineffective over the long-term. As already mentioned, permissive parents are inconsistent. Over time, children learn to manipulate parents to get their way. This is called ego-centricism or selfish behavior, children learn how to manipulate when they have permissive parents. In some case permissive parents actually reinforce their.
children to manipulate. Children learn a false sense of control over adults that increases their manipulative behavior. As these children grow order they use this manipulative behavior to accomplish there desires in life by using unfair tactics. .
The Authoritarian Parenting Style is high on limits and low on love. That doesn't mean that an authoritarian parent does not love their child. They do love their child but their parenting technique uses discipline to set limits and not relationship. .
Most children of authoritarian parents do not feel as if they had a close, warm relationship with their parents.
