PSYC 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Parenting Styles, Diana Baumrind, Social Skills
28 Nov 2016
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How has the family changed in the past 25 years: less stay at home moms, not as many kids smaller families, divorce rates have increased, more technology. The family: family structure, more blended families, more single parent families, more women in the paid workforce, more daycare, less leisure time, different discipline practices, it"s now less usual to see spanking. Baumrind: closely associated with standard parenting styles in psychology. Can be categorized along 2 dimensions: warmth/responsiveness, demandingness. Types of parenting styles: brickwall (authoritarian, no give. Children of brickwall tend to have difficulties socially because they don"t have a lot of good role models. Not particularly outgoing: backbone (authoritative, highly demanding but also high in warmth. Children push limits but does not mean you have to say yes. Set of rules and structure in place, but backbone can be flexible. Children are socially competent and self-reliant: jellyfish (permissive, permissive indulgent: low demanding, high in warmth.
