Parenting styles vary, and include authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and harmonious styles. All of these styles are relatively common, varying depending on culture and individual differences. Television shows reveal different parenting styles. For example, on the sitcom Modern Family, different parenting styles are evident. Gloria is occasionally authoritarian in her approach, but otherwise the parenting style evident in all the three different family units is harmonious. Harmonious parenting styles are superior to authoritarian, authoritative, permissive styles in that they prepare the child for healthy social relationships with others.
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et al. (2016) is that “in general, increased parenting stress [is] associated with greater use of authoritarian and permissive parenting styles, as well as more problems with behavior regulation for children” (p. 3644). What this means is that the challenge of parenting a child with ADHD or ODD can be very stressful for parents who are not effectively trained to handle the situation, which creates a negative feedback loop for the children, with the parents’ stress increasing the child’s inability to cope or function with his or her own ADHD/ODD symptoms. As Hutchison et al. (2016) state: “Authoritarian and permissive parenting styles [are] associated with poorer child executive functioning”… Continue Reading...
2 and 6 years. Parents influence an infant's self-concept and self-esteem development through the parenting styles they utilize. Parenting influences a child's development of self-concept through establishing a warm relationship between the parent and child that in turn creates secure attachment. With regards to self-esteem, parents who encourage their children to succeed enhance their children's self-esteem while those who criticize their performance contribute to a child's low self-esteem. Parenting influences emotional understanding by labeling emotions and recognizing a child's emotional reactions whereas emotional self-regulation is influenced by verbal guidance and expression of emotions by parents. Self-conscious emotions are influenced by providing feedback to children… Continue Reading...