Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Parenting Styles


Kohn’s parenting styles include self-direction versus conformity. Conformity parenting is when parents have strict supervision and self-direction helps to motivate children and help children develop important components of life such as consideration and reasoning.

Baumrinds parenting style is made up of three different styles, authoritative, permissive and authoritarian. Authoritative parenting style is a parent that has high levels of control over their children, yet they are also very warm and loving. They want their children to succeed and help guide in doing so. Permissive parenting style are usually parents who are very caring to their children but they also let their children get away with a lot of things. They have very little control over their children. Authoritarian parenting styles is where parents are very strict, and are not warm to their children. They expect a lot from their kids and expect nothing but the best.

Lareau parenting styles is made up of two different components: concerted cultivation and accomplishment of natural growth. Concerted cultivation is where parents help exemplify their child’s interests and abilities. Accomplishment is where the parents let their children naturally develop their basic needs.

Baumrind’s parenting style differs from the other two because it is directly how they treat the child. A parent may have one of Baumrinds parenting styles mixed in with one of the other parenting styles as well.

The parenting style I favor most would be Baumrinds parenting style because it seems to fit most models of parents or possibly mix some of the styles together. But this is something that is easily seen to others from the outside and is easy to identify. I believe that most parents can identify themselves with one of the Baumrind’s parenting styles. 

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