Baumrind's Parenting Styles PDF

Baumrind’s Parenting Styles  Introduction to Parenting Styles During the 1960’s psychologist Diana Baumrind identified four important dimensions of parenting after conducting a study on over 100 pre-school children using parental interviews and naturalistic observa...

Baumrind’s Parenting Styles  Introduction to Parenting Styles During the 1960’s psychologist Diana Baumrind identified four important dimensions of parenting after conducting a study on over 100 pre-school children using parental interviews and naturalistic observations. These four aspects that led to her classifications of parenting styles are: Disciplinary strategies Warmth and Nurturance Communication Styles Expectations of Maturity and Control Based on these dimensions, Baumrind decided that parents show one of the four types of parenting styles with their children: - Authoritarian - Indulgent - Authoritative - Neglectful  Authoritarian Parenting Style: Restrictive, Punishment: Frequent controlling, spanking, shows demanding anger Communication: Result: Children of Little verbal exchange or Authoritarian parents are sayings such as, “you do often anxious, unhappy it my way or else”. and fearful. They do not Enforces rules but does initiate in activities with not explain them. others and have weak communication skills.  Examples of Authoritarian Parenting Authoritarian parents are unreasonable in their demand and utilize harsh punishments for wrong doings that co be corrected through examples or positive reinforceme Authoritative Parenting Style: Punishment: Encouraging, explains warm, nurturing, consequences constructive and reasoning behind them. Communication: Results: children of give-and-take, authoritative parents are often cheerful and positive outgoing, achievement feedback, oriented and strive to meet their goals. They praise, open- cope well with stress ended and have good relationships with  Examples of Authoritative Parenting -Authoritative parents use equality to explain their demands and the reasons behind them. -They get “on their level” to speak to their children about following rules. -They use positive reinforcement and praise often. - Children who are raise by authoritative parents are more willing to go to them for help and comforting. -They feel a better sense of trust and belonging. -These children are cooperative and  Neglectful Parenting Style: Uninvolved Punishment: Few cases of punishment due to un- involvement Communication: Result: Children of Little communication neglectful parents are which leads to the child’s often socially sense that parents’ other incompetent, lack of self- aspects or life are much control, low self-esteem, more important. immature, and are not successful with independence Examples of Neglectful Parenting A neglectful parent always puts his/her needs and wants as first priority. Usually experiencing financial, emotional and social stress, neglectful parents are unable to encourage, teach or enable their children. Involvement in addictive behaviors and lack of support or friendship can oftentimes leave children of neglectful  Indulgent/Permissive Parenting Style: Highly involved Punishment: Allow with children but children to do as they place few demands please or controls on them Communication: Result: These children Parent’s believe this will rarely learn will foster a creative, respect for others confident child. and have difficulty Overindulge verbally controlling their and materialistically behavior. Might be domineering, egocentric, and non-  Indulgent Parenting Continued… Responsive but undemanding Oftentimes create children who are demanding and selfish rather than loving and supportive Children typically possess good self-esteem and excellent social skills but can be less motivated in school because they are not held accountable for their own behavior Baumrind’s Parenting Styles Accepting, Rejecting, Responsive Unresponsive Demanding, Authoritative Authoritarian Controlling Undemanding, Un- Indulgent Neglectful controlling  Punishment The most successful way to increase a Negative desired behavior is to use positive reinforcement. Reinforcement is to remove a negative stimulus following a response. This is the least successful way to increase a desired behavior. Because you're late to work one morning, you drive over the speed limit When something desired is taken away through in order to decrease a certain behavior, a school zone. As a it is result, called Negative Punishment. This is the you get pulled over by a least effective of all punishments.  Co-parenting Support given by each parent when raising a child Poor co-parenting can place children at risk Research shows co- parenting as more beneficial than either maternal or paternal parenting in terms of