Parenting Styles

Hello everyone! In this blog I'm going to talk about parenting styles and touch base on the parenting style that's is the most effective when it comes to parenting your children. What are the parenting styles called? There are three different parenting styles. Authoritarian, permisive, and authoritative. 

The authoritarian parenting style creates unsociable and withdrawn children who may struggle to understand how to make appropriate choices for themselves. The authoritarian parenting style is alike a "jawbreaker" because it has a hard shell, it's unbreakable, and it's rigid. This style is a very "my way or the highway style". No matter how hard the child tries, they cannot and will not be able to break the hard shell of a parent. You can think of these parents as strict and parents who call all the shots. In this parenting style, there is absolutely no negotiation involved and the child does not have a say in anything. This just proves that even thought authoritarian styled parents love their children, they still have very high demands for them and expect a lot from their children.

The permisive parenting style makes it easy for the parent to be manipulated. This style created low levels of demand that lead to low levels of correction. It creates immature and dependent children with low levels of self-control. This parenting style is alike a "marshmallow" because it's soft, squishy, and easily manipulated. Permisive parents want to be their child's friend instead of parent and don't particularly believe in having consequences for their children's misbehavior. There are very low levels of demand.

 The last style is the one all parents should base their parenting off of, and this one is called the authoritative parenting style. The reason why this is the best style to go by and apply to yourself is because it's the most approchable for your children. It helps you guide and negotiate with your chilren. It also helps your chilren have good social skills and helps them become independent upon reaching adulthood. The children raised by this style are often self-reliant and confident. This parenting style is alike a "tennis ball". This is because alike a tennis ball, these parents are hard on the outside, but soft on the inside.