Diana Baumrind: The Four Types Of Parenting
According to Diana Baumrind, there are four distinct types of parenting styles that parents use, depending on their own personality traits, the traits of the child, and their understanding of child development. Some parent show high rates of ACCEPTANCE/RESPONSIVENESS, an element of parenting that shows the amount of warmth and affection in the relationship between the parent and the child. On the other end of this is the DEMANDINGNESS/CONTROL aspect of parenting that weighs the amount of structure and control that the parents place on their children. The four types of parenting by Baumrind are as follows.
AUTHORITATIVE PARENTS, who score high on both demandingness/control and acceptance/responsiveness, seem to the best type. These parents tend …show more content…
A common consequence of this type of style of parenting is that the child ends up with poor social skills and feelings of unworthiness of the love of others, and I can relate to this. My social skills have improved over the years, as I have been living and supporting myself on my own since I was nineteen, but I do suffer from lack of self-worth and confidence. Growing up, my mother did mostly everything for me. When we had a falling out when I was 19 and she made me move out, it was very difficult to become self-reliant because of the lack of rules throughout my life in the household, and the fact that my mother never really forced me to do anything. If I didn’t want to attend school or a function, she welcomed it. So when the rug was pulled from under me, and I was forced to begin to support myself, I could not handle it for a very long time. My mother did use many beneficial parenting techniques, such as SELF-ORIENTED INDUCTION, a strategy where she would ask me to think about the consequences that I might endure because of my behavior on any given situation. She also was very big on OTHER-ORIENTED INDUCTION, where she asked me to contemplate the effects of my behavior on others. To this day I have issues with carrying out tasks autonomously, and keeping a long-term job. I’m not sure if this will change with time, but I have a lot of
AUTHORITATIVE PARENTS, who score high on both demandingness/control and acceptance/responsiveness, seem to the best type. These parents tend …show more content…
A common consequence of this type of style of parenting is that the child ends up with poor social skills and feelings of unworthiness of the love of others, and I can relate to this. My social skills have improved over the years, as I have been living and supporting myself on my own since I was nineteen, but I do suffer from lack of self-worth and confidence. Growing up, my mother did mostly everything for me. When we had a falling out when I was 19 and she made me move out, it was very difficult to become self-reliant because of the lack of rules throughout my life in the household, and the fact that my mother never really forced me to do anything. If I didn’t want to attend school or a function, she welcomed it. So when the rug was pulled from under me, and I was forced to begin to support myself, I could not handle it for a very long time. My mother did use many beneficial parenting techniques, such as SELF-ORIENTED INDUCTION, a strategy where she would ask me to think about the consequences that I might endure because of my behavior on any given situation. She also was very big on OTHER-ORIENTED INDUCTION, where she asked me to contemplate the effects of my behavior on others. To this day I have issues with carrying out tasks autonomously, and keeping a long-term job. I’m not sure if this will change with time, but I have a lot of