Parenting

There are three different types of parenting styles; autocratic, permissive, and active (otherwise known as authoritative or democratic). In class this week we talked about the differences between the three, and the goods and bads to each style. Autocratic is essentially a strict parent, and they are always right, what they say goes, and they don't have much leeway with their children. Their children tend to resent them and want out. This tends to cause contention between the children and the parents. Permissive is basically the opposite of that; they are really laid back and relaxed, allowing their children to do whatever they want with the mindset of they'll "live and learn". If this style ever does say no to something their child wants, and the child doesn't like that, the parent will give in. These parents want to be thought of as cool, which as a result has them putting friendship before parenting which can also loose the respect of the children. Active parenting seems to be the most ideal style, out of the three that is, because it meets in the middle. Problems still come up, but as the parents and the children work through them together as a team unit with a mutual respect they come to an agreement that they both are happy with, and even if they're not, the respect and trust is still there and feelings are not hurt.