It is critical to guarantee that your parenting style promotes healthy growth and development since the way you interact with your children and the way you punish them will have an impact on them for the rest of their lives.
The following four types of parenting styles have been discovered by researchers:
- Authoritarian
- Authoritative
- Permissive
- Uninvolved
Parenting in an authoritarian manner
Authoritarian parents have high expectations for their children's success and maturity, but they are also friendly and sensitive to their children. These parents establish standards and enforce limits by engaging in open dialogue, offering direction, and employing logic and reason.
Parents who opt this type of parenting offer their children a rationale and an explanation for their actions and decisions. Explanations help youngsters develop a feeling of self-awareness while also teaching them about values, morality, and objectives.
Children of authoritative parents have a propensity to:
- be joyful.
- are more self-sufficient.
- improved academic performance.
- interact with peers in a professional manner by demonstrating effective social skills.
- have improved mental health.
Parenting in an authoritative manner
The authoritarian style is characterized by both a high level of parental control and a low level of parental response on the part of the parents.
Even though authoritarian parenting and authoritative parenting styles have similar titles, there are significant variations between them in terms of parental beliefs, demands, and approaches.
Both authoritarian and permissive parenting styles require high standards, while authoritarian parents expect blind compliance with justifications such as "because I said so." They only permit one-way communication via the use of tight rules and regulations. Any attempts to argue with them are viewed negatively as backtalk in their eyes.
Authoritarian parenting styles are associated with the following characteristics in children:
- have a depressed outlook on life.
- reduced sense of independence.
- make themselves appear insecure.
- have a poor sense of self-worth.
- Poor academic performance.
Parenting in a permissive manner
Permissive parents establish few rules and boundaries, and they are hesitant to enforce those restrictions when they exist. These parents are kind and generous, but they are reluctant to say no or disappoint their children because they do not want to hurt their feelings.
Children with lenient parents are more likely to suffer negative outcomes:
- they can't seem to follow the rules.
- have less self-control than usual.
- possess egocentric characteristics in their behavior.
- have greater difficulties in relationships and social interactions.
Parenting in a neglectful manner
Neglectful parents do not establish clear limits or strong expectations for their children. They are unconcerned about the needs of their children and are uninvolved in their life.
It is possible that these uninvolved parents have mental health difficulties themselves, including depression, or have experienced physical abuse or child neglect as children.
Children of parents who are neglectful may possess the following characteristics:
- they are more impulsive in their actions.
- their emotional self-regulation is not possible.
- have higher mental health problems – for example, suicidal conduct in children and teenagers.