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Parenting Styles
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Although there is no one right way to discipline and raise your kids, parents who are authoritarian (overly strict and bossy, believing in 'absolute obedience to authority' and creating children that are afraid of them and fearful of new challenges and experiences) or permissive (overly lenient, without setting any limits and creating children who are spoiled and disrespectful and unable to make their own choices) are more likely to run into trouble with their children's future behavior.
An authoritative style of parenting is more likely to be successful in the long run. Parents who are authoritative set rules and limits, but explain why they are necessary and take their children's point of view into account when making the rules. They communicate regularly with their children and encourage them to be independent.
Another way of thinking about the different parenting styles is that authoritarian parents are overly controlling, permissive parents have little control over their children and authoritative parents have just the right amount of control.
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Discipline Internet Resources:
- The Four Parenting Styles: categorizes four main parenting styles, including Rejecting/Neglecting: Low Love and Low Limits, Authoritarian: Love Love and High Limits, Permissive: High Love and Low Limits, Democratic or Balanced: High Love and High Limits.
- Discipline and Your Child: AAP parent's guide to discipline, explaining the difference between discipline and punishment, how to encourage good behavior, tips to avoid trouble, and strategies that work, including using natural consequences, logical consequences, withholding privileges and time-out. Plus six tips to make discipline more effective and information about why spanking is not the best choice.
- Disciplining Your Child: Information from kidshealth.org about disciplining your children at different stages of their life and a word about spanking.
- Guidance for Effective Discipline: American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on discipline using a developmental approach, plus strategies for effective discipline and punishment.
- Effective Discipline for Young Children: Learn to understand children's behavior better, how to prevent misbehavior, how to deal with misbehavior, that discipline helps children learn how to behave, that there are many acceptable ways to discipline children.
- Discipline Facts: 'Helping a child to behave in an acceptable manner is a necessary part of raising the child well. Discipline varies at different ages. There is no one right way to raise children, but child and adolescent psychiatrists offer the following general guidelines...'
- BabyCenter Discipline Articles: Articles to help you discipline your baby and toddler.
- Behavior Problems and Solutions: Articles to help you discipline your preschool and school age children, including discipline strategies, and dealing with behavior problems at home, school, and at play.
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