Parenting Styles and Child Development
| Parenting Styles and Child Development | Awais Qureshi | | Hannah Steinweld | 5/11/2011 |
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In recent years, much data has shown that parenting styles exercise a strong influence on child development and behaviour. The initial choice of parenting style creates the foundation for the child’s psychological and social development. Parents can choose from different approaches in raising their child; they can be strict, moderate or lenient. Authoritarian parents are characterized as being demanding and controlling and intolerant of their child’s bad behaviour (Aslam and Sartaj, 2001). On the other hand, authoritative parents are also defined as demanding but are more understanding as regards to the child’s failures and will try setting guidelines rather than strict rules. Furthermore, permissive parents are described as being non-restrictive and imposing few rules on the child. This parenting style is considered as being lenient and “laid back”. As the child matures, he will be influenced by the way he was raised and that will have an impact on his education, social life and character. I would like to investigate the impact of parenting styles on a child’s development.
Child Development A child will behave depending on what he learned in his childhood, in this case by his parents. As the child grows, he behaves accordingly to what he was thought by his parents. If he was thought to show good manners and behave good in front of visitors, that is how he will behave. However, if there wasn’t any emphasis put by the parents to teach the fundamental of behaving, he will do as he pleases. This differs from the child’s psychological development. As Erickson argues, there are eight stages of development throughout life. In his theory, we all go through these stages and every stage there is a development conflict (Mandleco, p.35). The resolution for each conflict can be either have positive outcome or a negative outcome to the psychological development. Successful
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In recent years, much data has shown that parenting styles exercise a strong influence on child development and behaviour. The initial choice of parenting style creates the foundation for the child’s psychological and social development. Parents can choose from different approaches in raising their child; they can be strict, moderate or lenient. Authoritarian parents are characterized as being demanding and controlling and intolerant of their child’s bad behaviour (Aslam and Sartaj, 2001). On the other hand, authoritative parents are also defined as demanding but are more understanding as regards to the child’s failures and will try setting guidelines rather than strict rules. Furthermore, permissive parents are described as being non-restrictive and imposing few rules on the child. This parenting style is considered as being lenient and “laid back”. As the child matures, he will be influenced by the way he was raised and that will have an impact on his education, social life and character. I would like to investigate the impact of parenting styles on a child’s development.
Child Development A child will behave depending on what he learned in his childhood, in this case by his parents. As the child grows, he behaves accordingly to what he was thought by his parents. If he was thought to show good manners and behave good in front of visitors, that is how he will behave. However, if there wasn’t any emphasis put by the parents to teach the fundamental of behaving, he will do as he pleases. This differs from the child’s psychological development. As Erickson argues, there are eight stages of development throughout life. In his theory, we all go through these stages and every stage there is a development conflict (Mandleco, p.35). The resolution for each conflict can be either have positive outcome or a negative outcome to the psychological development. Successful
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