Types of Parenting Styles
“There are many types of parenting styles.”
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Anyone raising children have moments when they ask themselves if they are doing a good job. Self doubt and concerns over doing the best possible job of parenting plague us. Here are some things for you to consider. What is your type of parenting style, what other types of parenting styles are there and finally if I choose to change my style, how do I do it?
The easiest starting point to identifying your personal parenting style is to ask: is my overall approach to child rearing passive or aggressive? That’s right are you more laid back or are you inclined to having things your way. Now this doesn’t mean that you are always passive or aggressive, it simply means that in most cases most of the time you’re one way or the other. Your having one style versus the other doesn’t necessarily mean that your style is wrong.
Now there certainly is any number of facets to your type of parenting style. Here again there is no “right” or “wrong” style. But it may be helpful to you to understand other available styles. Let’s look at the most widely accepted type of parenting style:
· Indulgent parents: This parenting style is considered to lean towards the parent being non-traditional and lenient in how they interact with their children. This style can be further divided into those parents who choose to interact with their children in a democratic way, or in a nondirective way.
· Authoritarian parents: These parents are sure of what is right and wrong. In their type of parenting style they are very direct in what their children can or cannot do as well as what is expected of them. Most things are either black or white, right or wrong.
· Authoritative parents: This group of parents have a type of parenting style that seems to blend the best qualities of both the indulgent and authoritarian styles. These parents while indulgent also have very clear and specific expectations of their children.
· Uninvolved parents: This lasttype of parenting scores low in each of the above three styles. This style can border on a parent being neglectful and uninvolved in the lives of their children.
After you have examined these differing type of parenting styles you are either more comfortable with your parenting style or you may find yourself wanting to change styles.
Should you choose to change styles the first thing you should do is research the particular style you want to adopt. Read all that you can find, select the particular aspects of the style that you want to include in your new style, and finally define just what behavior you need to emulate to mirror that style.
Finally, practice, practice, practice. As you begin to act in a way that is consistent with your choice of the parenting style you want you’ll soon find yourself doing it.
I hope this article has helped to further your understanding of the types of parenting styles.
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