Introduction
Parenting practices differ greatly among families, often shaped by cultural backgrounds that play a crucial role in influencing family dynamics and child-rearing approaches. Culture encompasses shared social norms, values, language, and behaviors, greatly impacting parenting practices. Consequently, parenting strategies for fostering self-regulation—including attention, compliance, delayed gratification, executive function, and effortful control—differ across cultural contexts.
Every parent brings a distinctive approach to engaging with and guiding their children, shaping their values, principles, and behavior.
Types of parenting styles
Authoritarian
Authoritative
Permissive
Uninvolved
1. Authoritarian - this parenting style might expect the children to follow strict rules and if they are not they are often met with a punishment. Their usual reply is “Because I said so.” These parents often have high expectations and demand perfection from their children, scolding or punishing them harshly for every mistake. They usually need to be more responsive to their children's needs.
Effects - these people tend to grow more obedient and may start having social anxiety, lower self-reliance, and also have low internal motivation.
2. Authoritative - this parenting style is where the parents make a set of rules that the children are expected to follow but are much more democratic and responsive to their kids. These parents are willing to listen to their children and even if they do not meet their expectations they are more caring don’t give them punishments and are forgiving.
Effects - these kids are often happy, capable, and successful in life and have much more satisfaction in their lives.
3. Permissive parenting - these parents usually have very few demands rarely discipline their children and have low expectations.
They are people who tend to be friends rather than a parent. They are warm and tend to listen but set a few rules but don't really enforce them and most importantly they allow their children to make their own decisions.
Effects - these kids tend to be ranked low in happiness and self-regulation and often perform low in school.
4. Uninvolved parenting - these parents communicate less with their kids, are low responsive, and have very few regulations.
These parents may check if the child is fed or shelter but they don’t give any guidelines to them and are detached from their child but sometimes they don’t even provide for their needs.
Effects - these people rank low in everything they have no self-control, less self-reliance, and have higher rates of delinquency.
Conclusion
All parenting styles are different but make sure it is balanced because everything has its limitations and each one influences the kids in different ways.
References
National Center for Biotechnology Information. (2020). Parenting styles and child outcomes. In StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK568743/
Wu, K. (2020, June 10). Parenting styles explained. Parents.
Cherry, K. (2023, January 2). The 4 types of parenting styles. Verywell Mind.
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