“For parents trying to keep up with all the child-rearing buzzwords, there it is. ‘the helicopter’, constantly hovering over his son. `’The koala’ who keeps his son close. ‘The lighthouse’, guiding the way. AND ‘Tiger’strict, demanding and focused on achievement ”, reviews the different parenting styles elizabeth chang in The Washington Post.
Family behavior psychologists have long believed that the way a child is raised affects their well-being. In the 1960s, researchers developed a typology of four parenting styles, based on the levels of support and control that parents exhibited: authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, and neglectful.
According to studies conducted in the United States, the authoritarian style, which combines high expectations with a willingness to meet the child’s needs, has historically been endorsed. In that regard, the research finds that in the past, children raised by authoritarian adults were less likely to become involved in crime or become a victim of crime.
the psychologist Nancy Darlingprofessor of psychology at Oberlin College who has investigated parenting styles, noted that before a mother “was considered to have experience. And she was integrated into a community that she could turn to for help. But now that mother is really insecure because she keeps telling her that she doesn’t know what she’s doing. So the children can fall apart and be a disaster.”
Parenting styles can go by different labels, some are hard to tell apart, and few have been scientifically investigated. However, a series of questions They were proposed for the individual to reflect and self-answer, thus intuitively discovering in which category with its curious denominations it can be located within the parental classifications:
“If your child scores poorly on a math test. What does he tell you?” “Her son of hers grabs a chocolate bar in the supermarket and refuses to put it down. What is your reaction?” “You are going to bring home a newborn soon. Do you plan to sleep together?” “All the kids in the neighborhood are going to play soccer. Is your son going?” “You are doing some chores around the house. Do you do it while holding your 6-month-old baby?”
“Parenting Styles, almost always endorsed by an expert, offers isolated parents a package of advice that addresses fundamental concerns about safety, achievement, or emotional stability. These labels can create a sense of community. A new TV series The Parent Testhas even turned parenting into a competition, pitting parents with contrasting styles against each other,” the columnist concluded.
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