Parenting Styles

Baumrind's parenting style includes three core styles authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative. In the authoritarian style parents are obedience and status-oriented expecting their orders to be obeyed without explanation. These parents use punishment and fail to give reasons. Permissive style has the parents more as a friend than a parent who rarely disciplines and over indulges their children. They are nontraditional and lenient, do not require mature behavior, allow considerable self-regulation, and avoid confrontation. The last style is authoritative which offers a balance of the previous styles. These parents are assertive, establishing rules and guidelines that their children are expected to follow. When children fail to meet the expectations, these parents are more nurturing and forgiving rather than punishing. They want their child to be assertive as well as socially responsible, and self-regulated as well as cooperative.


Kohn's parenting style consist of two core styles, conformity and self direction. With conformity the children are under strict supervision and follows a more set routine. Self direction on the other hand is more lax stressing the child’s motives and development of self-control, consideration, reasoning, curiosity, initiative conformity.


Lareau's parenting style has two core styles, concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth. Concerted cultivation allows children to foster their interest and abilities. Accomplishment of natural growth the parents provide the basic necessities such as food and shelter while the child's development happens spontaneously.


The style I agree with is Baumrind's style of parenting. Compared with the other two it has one more core style. Kohn's style of parenting can be found within Baumrind's, authoritarian is similar to conformity and permissive is like self direction. As for Lareau the authoritative and permissive styles of Baumrind incorporates to some degree concerted cultivation. Baumrind incorporates the other styles as well as giving more parenting styles with in-depth explanations.