Parenting Style Essay

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Quiz – What Type of Parent are you? By Debra W. Haffner, author of What Every 21st-Century Parent Needs To Know Read the four statements and choose which one most closely resembles how you approach your children. Don’t take a long time to think this through; go with your first instinct. (Would your children agree with your answer?) The Four Parenting Styles The four parenting styles are known by parenting researchers as Permissive, Authoritarian, Authoritative, and Uninvolved/Neglectful. All four styles are considered to be “normal” styles of parenting. Quiz – What Type of Parent are you? Permissive If you chose more “A’s” than anything else, you are probably a “Permissive” Parent. Permissive Parents tend to be more responsive to their children’s needs than demanding. Permissive Parents regularly consult with their children, give lots of explanations for their decisions, and allow their children to basically decide their own behaviors. Although close to their children, they make few demands on them for conformity, orderly behaviors, or chores. This is the parent who lets a preschooler strew toys all over the living room and leave them there. This is the parent who lets adolescent children leave the house without knowing where they are going, who asks where they went when they return but without much comment, and who involves their children in all family decisions. Such parents may look the other way when their teens come home after drinking and may allow their teens to have sex with a boyfriend or girlfriend in their homes. Their slogans might be “Boys will be boys” and “That’s what teenagers do.” Quiz – What Type of Parent are you? Authoritarian If you chose more “B’s” than anything else, you are probably an “Authoritarian” Parent. Authoritarian Parents reverse the permissive approach: they are more demanding of their children than responsive to their
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