Styles of Parenting
There are three different parenting styles: authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive. In this post I will explain them and offer pros and cons of each. The authoritarian style of parenting can be likened to a jawbreaker. A jawbreaker is very hard and unmoving, and is rightly named as a jawbreaker, since if you try to break through it, you're likely to hurt your jaw it's so hard. This style of parenting has many expectations for the child, but offers little support for the child. This can cause the child to act out, just to upset their parent. All this pressure, combined with little to no support or warmth from the parent(s) can also make the child grow up to be anti-social, and have a difficult time figuring out how to make choices for themselves. The parent calls the shots, and mistakes are met with harsh punishment, whereas achievements are met with little warmth. There aren't any pros for the children when it comes to this style of parenting, other than learning how...