Parenting- Styles and Benefits

Last week in Family Relations we learned about parenting and why we parent how we do in the United States and in our church. We also discussed the benefits of good parenting for parents and children. Some of these benefits include understanding God and the Plan, practicing Christlike attributes, preparing/socializing kids for life, bonding and defining the family, etc. We talked about the three parenting styles including authoritative, authoritarian, and passive. Authoritative is the most successful type of parenting that involves listening and correcting for the benefit of the children with no alterior motives. Authoritarian includes some of the same characteristics of authoritative but is more of a dictatorship with the intention to have power and control. Passive consists of little correction and discipline where the parent acts more as a friend than a loving, disciplinary guardian.