Over Authoritarian Parenting Style In Relation To Children

To what extent does authoritative parenting style out way over authoritarian parenting style in relation to children? “A newborn child's mind is a blank sheet of paper, a clean slate, a tabula rasa.” John Locke (1690), this metaphor has indicated that children will grow up to be like what environment around them shaped them to be. Thereby the most important environment is parents because they are the first teachers of their children's lives. Children learn moral, expression and the way to see the world from their parents. If parenting styles are different, children’s development outcome will be different as well. According to, Diana Baumrind (1991), the three parenting styles consisting of authoritarian parenting style, authoritative parenting

Misbehaviour, for instance aggressive, persecution and anti-social behaviour (Lamborn et al 1991; Sternberg et al, 1996; Sternberg et al, 2006; Williams et al, 2009). Nonetheless, children from authoritative families have better behaviour than children from authoritarian families. The result from the study of African-American kindergarten discovered that children from authoritative families were the least likely to have trouble such as misbehaviour, fighting problem and bullied others, reported by their parents (Querido et al, 2002). Although some part of authoritative parenting style is similar to authoritative parenting style such as parents want their children to follow the (family) rules, be obedience and discipline, authoritative parents have great empathy and compassionate. They always responsive and reasonable enough to not immediate punish their children when children make mistakes but they will listen their children’s reasons, before explain the reason why they have to punish them. According to Maccoby and Martin (1983), authoritative parents are not only very responsive but also high ambitious. Authoritative parents try to avoid castigation, for example “You brought shame to me”, “I am very regret with your behaviour”, when their children do something wrong. The outcome of authoritative parenting style is that

The culture may affect on children’s feelings. Children from authoritarian families will be more inferior dissatisfied by authoritarian parenting style, if they perceive authoritarianism as a common. Nevertheless, high pressure, strict and controlling may influenced to children psychological, especially children’s emotional. Authoritarian parents have less warmth and high control, they always use their power force children to follow the rules or meet expectation. On the other hand, authoritative parents are less tend to regulate their children by severe and irrational punishment, they will not make their children be ashamed. Authoritative parents always give love to their children (Maccoby and Martin 1983). Therefore, children from authoritarian parenting style are more likely to have emotional problems than children from authoritative parenting style. According to American Academic of Pediatrics (2014), children with emotional problem are children who have unstable and vary temperaments. The result of having an emotional problem is more difficult to regulate stress and solve any controversy. Many studies agreed authoritarian parenting style affects children’s emotional problem such as the study in China found that rigid parents influence to children’s emotional. Children from authoritarian tend to have more trouble controlling their emotions (Chang 2003; Wang et