Authoritative Parenting Styles

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Authoritative Parenting is a parenting style that strictly focuses on the child. With this type of parenting style parents will closely interact with their children, while upholding them at very high expectations in behavior. They will also make sure that the child’s performance is up to part and is very a firm with the child when it comes to schedules and discipline actions. Children of authoritarian parents have a higher chance of developing some type of self-esteem problem because they feel as if their opinions aren't valued. They may also demonstrate aggressive behavior. Instead of thinking about how to make things better future occurrences, they tend to focus on all of the anger they felt toward their parents in the previous years. Authoritarian parents are often strict, their children may end up developing a very bad habit such as lying in an effort to dodge the punishment.
Authoritative parents have rules that they set and they use consequences if any of the rules are broken. With the rules intact they seemingly take their children's opinions into consideration. They authenticate their children's feelings at all times, while making it clear that the parents are in charge
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They tend to encourage their children to talk to them about their issues, but don’t necessarily put a lot of effort into talking to them about making poor choices and trying to stop it. Kids who grow up with permissive parents tend to struggle academically. They may display a lot of behavioral problems because they care or appreciate the authority or rules of any grown up. They often have very low self-esteem and seem to be sad all of the time. Consequences of this type of parenting leads to the child being obese, because permissive parents struggle with limiting the amount junk food one can have, and more likely to have dental issues because the parent don't enforce good hygiene, like making sure that the child brushes their