The Four Types Of Parenting Styles

There are over 148.8 million parents in the world. With all of these parents, we, as kids, and parents themselves all tend to believe everyone has different parenting styles. However, according to psychologist, Diana Baumrind, all parenting styles fit into four different categories. The four main categories of parenting are based on level of strictness. These levels are authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and neglectful. An authoritarian parent is one that kids wish their parents were not. This parenting style is known for having an abundant amount of rules and making sure they are all followed. Rules are expected to be followed without any negotiation or explanation. For example, the most common response of an authoritarian parent

Permissive parents tend to be very caring and loving, which makes it hard for them to set rules. Instead of using rules, the parent believes that allowing children to make their own choices will also help them learn to solve problems on their own. Because there are no rules, parents use bribery on their kids, using toys or money to get them to listen to them. This parenting style has a very strong communication level with their children. However, because these parents desire to be more of a friend, conversation usually leads to the child deciding for themselves instead of the parent leading them in the right direction. Like it was said earlier, the kids tend to make all of their own choices, meaning no expectations are usually set. With no expectations and an overly loving attitude, any accomplishment made by the child is seen as a time for a celebration. Having no limits came with no form of punishment. If a child was doing something bad, a parent would either tolerate the situation or give the child something to make them happy. This in the end just punishes the parent by causing them to lose control of their own children. In the situation of the fighting twins in the living room, if the twins were fighting over an Ipad, a permissive parent would buy two Ipads to make both kids happy. Nothing would be said about them hitting each other, but rather

Also, known as uninvolved parenting, this style is characterized by a lack of responsiveness to a child’s needs. An uninvolved parent may have a few rules around the house, but generally if there are any they tend to be very basic, such as a curfew. For this style, the parent usually provides the necessities to live, but when it comes to support, they are emotionally distant from the child. Parents of this style tend to spend all their time dealing with their own problems, causing them to shut the child’s problems out. With all the distance between parent and child, there tends to be very little or even no communication between the two. Again referring back to the fighting twins, if the mother was a neglectful parent she would just let them fight it out. Due to the fact of the lack of communication between parent and child, the mother wouldn’t find it necessary to go tell the children, but instead she would just tune it out. Because the parents are emotionally detached from the child, no expectations are ever expected. Even when the child does achieve something, the parent never takes the time to find out about it and praise the child for it. Know for just providing the basic needs, a neglectful parent almost never interferes with the emotional part of a child’s