Parenting Styles

Before discussing about 'Parenting Styles', let's look at the various factors influencing child development. Some of them are nutrition, early stimulation and child rearing practices.

Our topic of concern-Parenting Styles-comes under child rearing practices.

There are mainly four different parenting styles,

1. Authoritative
2. Authoritarian
3. Permissive
4. Neglectful

Authoritative Parenting Style:

It is know as positive parenting. 

The main characteristics of this parenting style are 

• It is democratic.
• Parents solve the problem together with the child.
• Parents set clear rules and expectations.
• There is a room for open communication and natural consequences.
• Is is considered as the best style of parenting.

Authoritarian Parenting Style:

This parenting style is obedience driven.

The main characteristics of this parenting style are 

• The parent will play the role of a disciplinarian.
• This is a parent-centered parenting style.
• There are strict rules and punishment for overriding the rules.
• There is no regard for child's emotion.

Permissive Parenting Style:

This is known as 'the child's way' parenting style.

The main characteristics of this parenting style are 

• Parents rarely give or enforce rules.
• It is fully child dominant.
• Parents overindulge child to avoid conflict.

 Neglectful Parenting Style:

This is known as 'absent parenting'.

The main characteristics of this parenting style are 

• Little nurturance or guidance to the child from parents.
• The parents are indifferent to children's emotion.

The above are the four different styles of parenting.