FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Parenting Styles, Totalitarianism, Slow Parenting
Document Summary
Costs and benefits to having children ( 5,10,15 years ) Break up w/ your partner out of stress. Personal well being ( physical, psychological, emotional ) Earlier = more time w/ children throughout life. Time to have more kids if you desire. We follow our parents ways ( repeat how they brought you up ) Maccoby and martin"s 4 parenting styles: demanding responsive - authoritative / propagative, demanding unresponsive - indulgent / permissive, undemanding responsive - authoritarian / totalitarian, undemanding unresponsive - neglectful. Authoritative parenting - characterized by high responsiveness and high demands. Parents are responsive to the child"s emotional needs while having high standards, they set limits and are very consistent in enforcing boundaries. Authoritarian parenting - high demands and low responsiveness. High expectations of their children, yet provide very little in the way of feedback and nurturance. Permissive / indulgent parenting - low demands with high responsiveness.
