Parenting is a form of bringing up a child. Different parents use different styles to raise their children. These parenting styles have positive and negative impacts on the young infants and the adolescents. The following are two different parenting styles; Authoritarian parenting and Permissive parenting.
Authoritarian parenting
This is whereby parents want their children to follow strict rules they establish. These parents do not listen to any questions from their children. The young infants grow up with severe fear in doing anything since their life is full of many threats. This parenting style does not provide a girl an opportunity to ask his/her mother a question. The parents deny their children especially the adolescents the right to express their feelings or decide on their own.
In this case, parents are real dictators in their families. Failure to obey such strict rules, usually results to punishment like beating, disclaimer for primary or secondary wants. These parents are extremely harsh on their children without caring if they are satisfied or sad. For example, if these parents find out that their children are friends with their opponent’s children, they do not even determine their behaviour. They only tell their children to finish that friendship immediately.
Permissive parenting
This is a technique where parents have remarkably few commands to perform to their children. They are more responsive than they are demanding. Being a brilliant example to children is also an applied technique in this style. It becomes easier to start up an immature child. For example, if a small baby goes borrowing from strangers, the parents try to tell them that it is filthy actions instead of beating them up. These parents are non-traditional or compassionate, do not require careful behaviour, allow ample self-regulation and avoid confrontation. They like it when they play the role of a friend other than that of a friend. They offer freedom to their children and are less demanding. This is a valid approach when dealing with puberty the parent is the best friend to the child rather than the peer group. These styles apply for the same objective; the children to be the best in behaving. Also they have different effects on these children (Darling, 1999).
Permissive parenting often results in children being not happy and rank low self- regulation. The children are more likely to experience problems with the administration and tend to perform poorly in school. The results of the child stress the parents seriously because of his/ her relationship with the authority. This is because the parent has remarkably few demands for the child. Lack of hostilities by parents to their children is still a cause for poor relationship with the administration.
The only advantages of this parenting style are that the child grows with respect and becomes obedient. Authoritarian approach leads to children who are not satisfied although uncommonly obedient. It also leads to children are behind by their peers (Hamner, Turner, 2001). The children grow up standing in lower social fit and self- esteem. As for the adolescents, they go expressing their problems to their peers who deceive them. This leads to cases like early pregnancy due to lack of knowledge. This becomes a serious problem to parents since another role of bring up another child becomes part of the other responsibility. Parents need to come up with specific parenting styles in order to get the best results from their children. This approach leads to considerable impacts on their children. All in all, children end up being exceedingly respectful (Laura. Munsch, 2011).
References
Darling, N. (1999) Parenting style and its correlates. Champaign: University of Illinois. Web.
Hamner, T., Turner, P. (2001) Parenting in contemporary society (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Web.
Laura, E., Munsch, J. (2011) An active learning approach. New York: Sage. Web.