Parenting Styles Essay

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The Impact of Parenting Styles
In the duration of most people’s life, the claim “I wish I had different parent’s or I wish my parents did this instead” is a thought that surfaces and sometimes becomes verbalized. This thought is one that makes us question that if we had different parents maybe things would be better, or maybe your life would have turned out obviously different than it is now. This thought is a justified one in the fact that people are raised differently and every parenting type has a distinct style. The styles include authoritarian, authoritative, indulgent, and neglectful. Each of which has a different impact on the children raised.
The authoritarian style is restrictive, and non-questioning. Living under this parent style results in social incompetence, and self-comparison. This is arguably the toughest style to be raised under. Living …show more content…

Having two vastly different styles made each one of them not as strongly apparent in my personality. Instead of having solely authoritarian parenting, the authoritative parenting I was exposed to allowed me to grow mentally, socially, and emotionally. With this being said, I can also see how the authoritarian style impacted me. I sometimes struggle to make decisions for myself that should be effortless. Instead of being able to easily decide for myself, many times I look for an outward opinion, or an affirmation of my decision. Being raised under two different styles I can understand how both positively and negatively impacted my life. Looking back on my childhood, versus who I am now makes me proud to say I conquered all of the obstacles that both parenting styles placed in front of me. This has resulted in my personal perception of parenting styles and which ones I would like to use in the future to raise my

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