Parenting Styles: Impact To The Adolescents

Parenting Styles Name Institute of Affiliation Date Parenting Style Parenting styles differ from one parent to another, depending on the way they want their children to be brought up. Based on my discussion with various parents and the analysis of Simon and Conger’s text on “Linking Mother–Father Differences in Parenting to a Typology of Family Parenting Styles and Adolescent Outcomes” it is clear that children require parenting from both parents. There are some aspects of life that a mother can change in their children and others that can be done well by the father. Additionally, the parenting style of the mother is openly different from that of the father, especially when they are coupled with the responsibility of shaping the behaviors of their children. Parenting is more complicated when the children reach puberty CITATION Sim07 \l 1033 (Simons & Conger, 2007). At that age children feel they are mature and become more active. They have a likelihood of providing other suggestions in contrary to their parents. In the study, parents utilize authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent or uninvolved parenting approach in sharpening up the behaviors of their children. These approaches determine the way a child behaves as most children tend to test their parents in their daily aspects of lives. The report analyses the study, discuss various parenting approaches and the impact of parents to the adolescents. Considering the aspect of parenting, the article demonstrates various approaches of parenting, particularly based on the literature of Maccoby and Martin (1983). In this regard, two dimensions are employed in classifying various parenting styles; basing on the responsiveness of the parents and the demandingness of the parents. The two dimensions give rise to the four parenting approaches which entail authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent and uninvolved approach. The article is truthful and believable as it points out issues that I found out during my discussion with different parents. The article concluded that children who are brought up by both parents tend to be advantageous compared to those brought up by a single parent. On the aspect of parents handling their children at the adolescent phase, the article expounds on the element with clarity that such children are usually active and tends to think they know a lot than their parents, they, therefore, keep on offering alternative suggestions in contrary to their parents’ CITATION Sim07 \l 1033 (Simons & Conger, 2007). I agree with the article that such stage needs parents who are authoritative in order to establish guiding rules to their children and when they go against them are sanctioned, punished and directed accordingly. It’s the best approach as both the physical behaviors as well as the emotional behaviors are noticed at ease. However, the paper majorly explores on the parenting of the mother as compared to the father. Additionally, the article is limited to one parenting role as it does not point out instances of c...