Parenting Styles Essay

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The 4 Different Approaches to Parenting: Authoritative: Authoritarian: Permissive: Uninvolved: Explain what “control” and “autonomy-granting” mean… PARENTING STYLES I. MOTHER 1. Identify her parenting style & write the text's definition, based on Control, Acceptance/involvement, and Autonomy-granting. 2. Give at least one SPECIFIC example from your life (actual events) for each component of your mother's style in action: Use the following as HEADINGS for your examples. (2 for Acceptance/Involvement + 2 for Autonomy Granting) * Acceptance/Involvement (Acceptance = love & affection): 1 example for each: = one for “Acceptance” the other for “Involvement” * Control (including follow-through with consequences): 1 example * Autonomy-granting (Gradually giving you more & more freedom over the years + making your own decisions/choices based on your maturity): 1 example for each II. FATHER 3. Identify his parenting style & write the text's definition, based on Control, Acceptance/involvement, and Autonomy-granting. 4. Give at least one SPECIFIC example from your life (actual events) for each component of your father's style in action: Use the following as HEADINGS for your examples. (2 for Acceptance/Involvement + 2 for Autonomy Granting) * Acceptance/Involvement: (Acceptance = love & affection): 1 example for each = one for “Acceptance” the other for “Involvement” * Control (including follow-through for consequences): 1 example * Autonomy-granting (Gradually giving you more & more freedom over the years + making your own decisions/choices based on your maturity): 1 example for each SAMPLE PAPER (You CANNOT use these examples for your paper! Come up with your own.) I. Mother 1. Authoritative (paraphrased text description + p. # follows): 2. Examples

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