EN1420 Moon
Position Paper
December 13, 2013
All parenting styles should be combined to raise well balanced children.
Every parent is different in his or her own way. Each one has one of three different parenting styles. These are authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive styles. One 's parenting style is usually a result of their own upbringing, their role models, or simply from the society in which they live. The style, in which one parents, is a very important aspect to the way a parent interacts with their child (Edwards, Rebecca. Parenting Styles). “Parenting style has a profound effect on the kid’s brain. The brain is molded by how parents treat their kids and the parenting styles and how it affects their child’s academic achievement, self-confidence, aggression, psychological strength, and capacity to cope with real-life challenges”. …show more content…
Not being able to make their kids the best means the parent is doing his/her jobs. Authoritarian parents believe that nothing is fun, unless you are good at it. An advantage to authoritarian parenting, according to research, demonstrates that kids who are protected from difficult problems and tasks do not develop what psychologists call “mastery experiences.” Kids who have these experiences tend to be optimistic, decisive and think of themselves as being capable of overcoming the greater challenges life throws at them. Some disadvantages to this parenting style have more impact than you may think. Some kids, who are pressured by parents to perform perfectly in school, eventually end up hating school. Many kids who are raised by authoritarian parents show signs of psychological problems, such as depression and anxiety, and some even resort to suicide