Raise Your Kids Right
To Get What You Expect
Your parenting style is the most likely way you will impact how your child grows up. In being responsive to your children, you are simultaneously setting clear rules and limits for your children. This is crucial for you as a parent. You have likely based on this, identified the four main styles of parenting. There is no “right” or “wrong” parenting style and more to the point, there is more than one right way, though we all have prejudices on what we think works best based on our own life experience and values. Research, however, has charted the effects of the various parenting styles on children:
Do anything you want
Parents engaging in this style of parenting believe in the permissive or indulgent approach. They demand very little responsible behaviour and frequently avoid confrontation with their children. This style was more popular with parents in the 50s and 60s.
Children who are brought up in this type of emotional environment tend to be more creative but some research indicates they may develop behavioural problems as they grow up because they tend not to accept responsibility.
I don’t care what you do
Very rarely parents remain uninvolved in their children’s lives, which can in many cases, border on neglect.
Children who are brought up in this type of emotional environment tend to perform poorly at school and frequently engage in criminal behaviour.
Jim Corbett