Parenting Styles and Child Development

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Parenting Styles

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The manner in which parents express their beliefs about how to be a good parent; many adopt the styles of parenting learned from their parents because that is the way they were raised and they feel it must be right.

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Authoritarian Parenting

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Style of parenting in which punishment and control are used frequently with parents assuming power and authority.

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Democratic Parenting

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Style of parenting in which parents and children work together to set limits and make discipline decisions.

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Permissive Parenting

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Style of parenting in which parents let their children make their own decisions in order to learn from their successes and failures, setting few limits, and offering minimal guidance.

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Role Model

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A person who is consistent and sets a positive example for others.

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Setting Limits

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Defining rules and boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

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Positive Reinforcement

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A response to a desired behavior that makes the behavior likely to be repeated.

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Consistency

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Maintaining a particular standard or repeating a particular response in the same or a similar way.

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Intentional

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Done on purpose, not by accident.

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Unintentional

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Done not on purpose or by plan, but by accident.