Parenting Styles Offer Various Amounts Of Responsiveness

Parenting Styles Different parenting styles offer various amounts of responsiveness and demandingness to children. Baumrind (1991) identified that children need a balance of nurturance and limit-setting from their parents in their home environment, in order to positively influence self-regulation, social responsibility, competence, independence, resilience, individuality, high self-esteem, and internal control. The parenting style that sufficiently balances nurturance and limit-setting is authoritative (Baumrind, 1991; Hamon Schrodt, 2012; Maccoby, 1992). Authoritative parenting is the combination of parental demands and high responses of warmth (Awong, Grusec Sorenson, 2008; Baumrind, 1991; Darling, 1999; Maccoby, 1992). Authoritative†¦show more content†¦Parents in this environment may occasionally choose to use discipline; however discipline is not direct and may include guilt, ridicule, or threats of love withdrawal (Bayer Cegala, 1992; Moore, 1992). These parents are reluctant to face confrontation and often accept their children’s behaviors and impulses, not requiring their children to reach developmental maturation (Baumrind, 1991; Bayer Cegala, 1992; Darling, 1999; Buboltz, Griffith-Ross, Marsiglia Walczyk, 2007; Moore 1992). Due to the lack of parental monitoring and discipline, this environment may hinder a child’s ability to understand that their actions can lead to consequences for other individuals (Moore, 1992). At times this relationship can seem more like a friendship, rather than an adult-child relationship (Rowinski Wahler, 2010; Wahloer Williams, 2010). Authoritarian parenting includes strict parental demand, with very minimal to no parental support, or warmth (Awong, Grusec Sorenson, 2008; Baumrind, 1991; Darling, 1999; Baharudin Kordi, 2010; Hamon Schrodt, 2012; Buboltz, GriffithRoss, Marsiglia Walczyk, 2007; Moore, 1992). These parents often use coercion or force, in order to create submissive children, as the parent’s goal is to create prompt obedience from their children (Awong, Grusec Sorenson, 2008; Baumrind, 1991; Darling, 1999; Baharudin Kordi, 2010; Hamon Schrodt, 2012; Buboltz, GriffithRoss, Marsiglia Walczyk, 2007; Moore,