Parenting Styles?

As everyone knows people are different and so it would make sense that there would be different parenting styles. Parenting styles range from being too strict and controlling to being overly permissive and uninvolved. Parenting is not about being a tyrant to MAKE children do things , nor is it about being overly permissive and doing everything you possibly can so your child will think you are a cool parent.

Parenting is NOT about 'control'. It is about teaching. Being a good role model, learning and developing the positive attitudes and skills required fro teaching. It is about knowing how to teach your children from a very young age how to think for themselves make good decisions and behave in ways that reflect their good reasoning. Of course parenting requires knowledge about how to teach children to think for themselves. Most parents just expect their children to be able to be logical and have good reasoning automatically, which is why children do not learn how.

Parenting requires good judgment and knowing when to talk with your child, when to listen to them, when to say "absolutely not", and when to reconsider your immediate "NO" to a request.

Bottom line, there are categories for parenting styles and parents should be familiar and understand their own style as a baseline. However, it is very important that parents learn positive effective ways to teach their children to think, and be healthy and happy. Parents can learn quickly that what works will be the style that enhances and builds strong healthy parent/child relationships.