parenting styles
Being a parent can be one of the most difficult jobs a person will ever have. It may be especially challenging when the child is in their adolescent years. Most parents want their children to become independent, productive and able to cope with the world. The older methods of parenting do not work in today's society. Teenagers, like everyone else, want to be treated with respect and seen as individuals with there own ideas. "Baumrind's seminal work on the classification of parenting styles has profoundly influenced research on parenting and its effects on children" (Brenner and Fox, 1999 p.1). "Baumrind found that there are four different types of parenting styles: authoritarian-parents who are punitive and focus on gaining a child's obedience to parental demands rather than responding to the demands of the child; permissive-parents who are more responsive to their children but do not set appropriate limits on their behavior; authoritative-parenting who are flexible and responsive to the child's needs but still enforce reasonable standards of conduct; and neglecting-parents who are under involved with their children and respond minimally to either the child's needs or the child's behavior"(Brenner and Fo
The study did by Walker and Henning (1999) "revealed that parenting style is influential in children's moral development" (p.5). Walker et al. (1999) found that parental hostility and conflict disrupted children's moral development and those children needed to have parental support and encouragement to facilitate moral development. "The concordant findings from two studies provide clear evidence that the nature of parents' interactions, ego functioning, and moral reasoning are predictive of children's moral development" (Walker and Henning, 1999 p.8). Walker and Henning (1999) found that "Parents who engage in cognitively challenging and highly opinionated interactions, who are hostile, critical, and interfering, and who display poor ego functioning (defensiveness, rigidity, rationalizations, insensitivity, inappropriate emotional expression) provide a context that hinders children's opportunities to move toward more mature moral understandings"(p.8). Walker et al. (1999) found that parents who show more support and attentiveness, and are more children centered, could be effective in positive moral reasoning. In conclusion, parenting is too important a responsibility to leave to chance and needs to correctly done. I agree that authoritative parenting offers the best chance for the adolescent to develop correctly and be able to handle the daily struggles of life. Roberts and Steinberg (1999) "suspect that teens excel in most areas of their lives when they simply feel that they come from a loving home with responsive parents, regardless of whether they perceive other shortcomings in their parents" (p.12). According to Herz and Gullone (1999) "authoritative parenting
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