Several parenting styles are being used in our society, authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and neglectful. Each differs from one another. Each of them affect a child differently, depending on the child’s personality.
Also several factors such as socio-economic status and the parent’s personality can lead to ineffective parenting. If the parent was raised by an abusive parent it can also cause the parent to e abusive as well.
I have been researching about parenting styles I never came across all these parenting styles. I just discovered 8 more parenting styles: Positive, attachment, spiritual, unconditional, slow, helicopter, narcissistic, and toxic parenting. Positive parenting relies on the principle of psychology that talks about human happiness, fulfillment and meaningfulness. Attachment parenting focuses on the principle of the attachment theory (secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized attachment). Unconditional parenting is about encouraging children to work their way into their natural character instead of trying to change who they really are in order to feel accepted or appreciated.
The 3 cultural artifacts I choose are pregnant onion, fudge and goodies for Christmas and stockings. Pregnant is a plant that one can grow if someone had taught them. It would be beneficial to learn about its utility and why consuming it would be good. Fudge and goodies, Christmas stockings are traditions that are used in several places when celebrating Christmas.
According to Smithsonian, The most popular legend about why stockings are hung at Christmas goes something like this: A recently widowed man and father of three girls was having a tough time making ends meet. Even though his daughters were beautiful, he worried that their impoverished status would make it impossible for their girl to marry.
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I believe the style that a parent uses to raise their children may have a tremendous impact upon that child, whether socially or mentally. The style can definitely affect the way their children act or react within the society. It can surely affect their children’ perspectives, values, and opinions. As Baumbrin mentioned in his study, the children that were raised by authoritative parents are more mature and responsible most of the time, I totally agree with his approach however it all depends on the child’s sex, personality, and attitude. An effective way that a parent can raise their child/children efficiently is by first observing their children’s personality and attitude and then they will be able to determine which style to use that would fits their child’s personality. I also believe that permissive style can be effective depending on the child, and it can also be ineffective based on the child. Furthermore, I can infer that various styles that parents use to raise their child differs based on the stages they are (infancy, adolescence). One style can be efficient for someone in their childhood but not in their adolescence. The style that once was efficient for a child may not always be for that child when he is in his adolescence.
The article I choose is about the various parenting styles and their effects upon a child. The authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive styles originated and defined by Baumrind in a longitudinal study (1967, 1991). Baumrind discovered that preschool children raised by authoritative parents were the best adjusted. The author elaborates on these various styles and how each of them differs from one another. Each parent raises their child/children a way depending on their personality, or their children’ personality. He mentioned authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved parents’ perspective and how each parenting style has tremendous impact upon the children. Children raised by authoritative parents were eager to learn, they were way more mature and responsible than the ones who were raised by authoritarian parents. Children raised by permissive, and authoritarian parents were not very pleasant to be around, they were aggressive; they were very immature; they had difficulty controlling their impulses and were disobedient and rebellious when asked to do something they do not desire. He mentioned that as children move into school, the parent-child relationship change- high rates of divorce, maternal employment can have positive as well as negative effects on children. Apart from these other styles LeMaster lists five other parenting styles (the martyr, the pal, the police officer, the teacher-counsellor, and the athletic coach) that correlate to the one he discussed in the article. He presents a table that describes each parenting style in depth.
Baumbrin talks about the parenting style that help children become happy about themselves and friendly with others and how these parenting styles affect children in their later life. The results of any given parenting style on any given child depends on many factors including the child’s age, sex, and temperament. Also the parents’ personality, characteristics, social- economic status and the like contribute to the child social, mental and intellectual development. These generalizations are drawn from the study conducted by Baumrind (1967). Authoritarian parenting style generally leads to children who are obedient and proficient, but they lack of happiness, social competence and self-esteem. They lack social competence as result of the parent’s choice of what the child should do instead of allowing the child to choose by him or herself. The children also rarely have options.
http://scholararticles.net/impact-of-parenting-styles-on-child-development/
I choose this quote from Albert Bandura because it corelates to my topic. Although I am not quite sure what topic to choose, I will lean towards Albert Bandura social cognitive theory to explain how environment shapes who we are, our attitude, personality and our perspective about what we value, our beliefs and disbeliefs our perspective about life itself. In his social cognitive theory, Albert Bandura mentioned the Triarchic Reciprocal Causality in which he elaborates 3 factors behavioral, personal and environmental. I like the quote because it relates to humans in general because if we were to rely solely on the effect of our own actions to inform us what to do, we would be doomed at times. We definitely need people who surround us to help us at times whether a family member or a friend or a mentor to help us through out the way. That is i definitely like Albert Bandura’s approach about learning which is a social cognitive process, we learn through our social interactions with others we develop. I would like to explore in a topic of my interest.