Impact of Parenting Style

“THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF PARENTING STYLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TUDENTS”

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM

Parents play a big role in their child’s development. The role of parents is of the fundamental consequence to the healthy development of children and youth. Nurturing parents have substantial positive effects on a child's opportunities in life. They are the one who builds the character and personality of their children since the day they were born. There are different parenting styles that give positive and negative effect on the degree of social competence of the children as well as their academic performance. A child’s development process is influenced by a mixture of all the stimuli he comes into contact with, such as people and situations. Since parents are normally a fixed presence in a child’s life, they tend to have the most significant impact on whether his development is positive or negative.

According to Baurmind there are 4 types of parenting styles in terms of the interactions between these two dimensions produced a fourfold typology: authoritarian, authoritative, indulgent and neglectful. Parents who are classified as parenting in an authoritarian style are highly demanding and unresponsive. Authoritarian parents tend to emphasize obedience and respect for authority. In contrast, authoritative parents tend to maintain a balance between high levels of demandingness and high levels of responsiveness. These parents consistently monitor conduct, but they are also warm and supportive .Indulgent and neglectful styles are both characterized by nondemandingness, but they differ in their level of responsiveness. Parents characterized by low demandingness and high responsiveness engage in an indulgent style. Parents who are neither demanding nor responsive display a neglectful style of parenting. These parents do not monitor their children's behaviors or support their interests, and they are often disengaged from parental...