Parenting Flashcards
Parenting style
- Typologies of parenting
* Emotional climate in which parents raise children
parenting PRACTICES
• Actual specific behaviors parents engage in to socialize their children
• Styles differ based on:
– The amount of warmth and control demonstrated by the parent
OR
– Balance between responsiveness and demandingness
3 Common Styles
- Authoritative
- Authoritarian
- Permissive
authoritative
- Parents warm and responsive while also having high maturity demands and firm limits.
- Example: encouraging interests, providing affect, having curfews, providing explanations for decisions, and following through with consequences
Authoritarian
• Not warm or responsiveness
– Do not praise/support – it is what is expected
• Very high maturity demands
– Do not tolerate misbehavior
– Expect constant obedience
• Lack of communication/explanation:
– “Because I said so”
• e.g., Focus on discipline not any positives
Permissive
• Moderate levels of responsiveness
• Problem lies with lack of expectations and limits
– Dismissive of child
– High tolerance for misbehavior
• Both ? and ?parenting styles have been associated with negative adjustment outcomes such as substance use, school misbehavior, and delinquency
authoritarian and permissive parenting styles
parenting associated with risk for readmission to a psychiatric inpatient unit for children and internalizing symptoms
pessimisive
? parenting has been linked to positive adjustment:
• Authoritative
Lower rates of substance use
– Lower rates of risky sexual behavior
– Less aggression and school misbehavior
– Delayed onset in the age of engaging in ones first delinquent activities
– High academic achievement
Authoritative
most effective parenting stradegy
time-out
early intervention is an important
to parenting
Christopher and spear
indicates that parental involvement and monitoring are robust
predictors of adolescent achievement.authoritative parenting styles are often
associated with higher levels of student achievement
zoccolillo
girls with conduct disorder turn out to be bad parents. longitudinal studies
Age Related Issues in Parenting
A. Needs to be developmentally appropriate
Some strategies are only useful at certain ages
- Some parenting characteristics are important at all ages, but may look different at different ages
- Examples: limit setting, consistency, effective communication
Age related changes in parenting
Physical punishment no longer possible/appropriate for teens
- Monitoring decreases from 4th to 8th grades - Positive reinforcement decreases as children age into adolescence - Time out ceases in early to mid childhood and removal of privileges becomes more effective - Parental involvement decreases in late childhood - Communication tends to improve as children age and verbal skills develop.
Gender Related Issues in Parenting
A. Parents parent boys and girls differently
Not clear exactly why parenting needs to be different for boys and girls
- May be that parents feel boys and girls need to be parented differently due to differing expectations
- Parents react more softly/harshly to behavior from one gender