Permissive Vs Authoritarian Parenting Styles

Your Home Life Effects Your Future
Growing up every child is exposed to different parenting styles and ideas. How one person’s parent disciplines, teaches, and guides their child can be completely different from another parent, and these differences shape who their kids become. These differences also create the categories that varying parenting styles fit in to. Two of these categories include permissive and authoritarian parenting styles, which may vary in expectations, reactions to conflicts, and ultimately the development of their child.
Permissive and authoritarian parenting styles greatly differ in the set expectations of their children. Permissive parents do not have set rules, and allow their kids to act, speak, and live in a manner
Permissive parents tend to avoid confrontation in fear of conflict or hurting their child’s feelings. If an issue arises, it is often times avoided or simply talked about without any consequences. Punishments and consequences hardly make an appearance in the lifestyle of a permissive family. Instead, the child usually discovers the consequences of their actions out in the real world rather than being taught by their parents. In positive situations, such as achievements, the parent builds up their child and rewards them. Going to a movie, having more friends over, and being able to go to a certain concert are all examples of rewards that might be given. Their parenting style is mainly focused on the accomplishments of their children, not their wrong doings. On the other hand, authoritarian parenting is mainly focused on punishments for wrong doing. If set rules and expectations, as previously described, are opposed or broken, consequences are almost always imposed. For example, groundings, losing privileges, etc. are commonly found within an authoritarian home. A child can break a simple task or rule, and sometimes extreme consequences are imposed. If an authoritarian parent’s child didn’t make their bed one morning before school, the child might be grounded for a week and have their phone taken away. Without respect, rules, and discipline, authoritarian parents believe a home could not function correctly. The way permissive and authoritarian parents discipline their children also affects what values, personality traits, and types of parents they develop or become in the