Dianne Baurmind’s Parenting Styles Defined: Top Family Information
Parenting is a complicated subject. Developmental psychologists show their keen interest in exploring different areas of parenting and its influence on the development of a child. Although different theorists work differently on highlighting different elements of parenting, Dianne Baurmind’s theory of parenting styles has probably got the most importance. In her theory of parenting styles, Dianne Baurmind defines three particular parenting styles – permissive, authoritarian and authoritative. And, Dianne Baurmind asserts that parenting styles strongly influence the personality, behavior and emotional balance of the child.
Permissive Parenting Style
Ae permissive parent follows a non-disciplinary, acceptant and affirmative parenting style while controlling child’s behaviors, impulses, actions and desires. In the permissive parenting style, parents generally talk with the child about guiding principle and provide the child the family norms. The permissive parents make only a few demands on behalf of household responsibility and logical behavior.
Parents who adopt the permissive parenting style set them neither as a model for him to imitate nor as an active agent responsible for adjusting their child’s behavior. Permissive parents prefer to place them as a resource to their child and the child is not set to follow any externally defined standards in general. The parents encourage their son or daughter to use manipulation and logic, but not any sort of overt power to achieve the parents’ standard of guidelines.
Authoritarian Parenting Style
Unlike to permissive parenting style, authoritarian parenting style focuses on controlling, shaping and evaluating the behavior and attitudes of the child. Parents who adopt authoritarian parenting style define a set of standards which is overtly influential and put together by a higher authority. Authoritarian parents value obedience as a quality of parenting style and implement forceful measures in order to restrain self-will, particularly when the parents find that the son or daughter’s actions or behaviors conflict with the conduct set by them.
The authoritarian parents control the child’s autonomy as a standard of implementing discipline. Also, they give the child household roles with the purpose of instilling value for work. These parents offer the highest value to the traditional structure and do their best to preserve order. Authoritarian parents do not accept ‘give and take’ policy as they think that the child should exclusively follow parents’ direction.
Authoritative Parenting Style
Authoritative parenting style aims at regulating a child’s behavior in a rational, problem-solving manner. In authoritative parenting style, parents believe in verbal ‘give and take’ policy. They give respect and try to understand the logic behind the policy implemented by the child. The authoritative parents, in practice, try to understand the child’s protestations when the child says no to any rules. In authoritative parenting style, both child’s autonomy and disciplined conformity are understood, respected and valued.
Authoritative parents use strict control at points of parent-child conflict, but do not force the child to obey before learning the logic from the child’s end. Parents of authoritative style put their active parental role into effect, but value the child’s individual interest and identities as well.
Impact on Children
Dianne Baurmind’s different parenting styles affect the child’s psychosocial development in different ways. It will be obvious, the most effective parenting style among all three parenting styles defined by Dianne Baurmind is authoritative parenting style. Children with authoritative parents are found as more socially, psychologically and emotionally competent than kids with non-authoritative parents.
Children with authoritarian parents show poor social skills and low self-esteem along with higher level of depression. Childrenwith permissive parents are mostly involved in problem behavior and lower academic performance, but they have high self esteem and better social skills.
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