Thursday 22 May 2008

Parenting styles - website

Most of you seem to have a good grasp of what the three main parenting styles involve, and I've seen good discussion in prelim answers of aspects like control, nurturance, communication, parental expectations.

A bit weaker is most people's ability to discuss the impact of the different styles on children. If you're doing this topic, the following article is definitely worth a look:

http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/ceduc/parentingstyles.html

Like with other areas, an answer is going to be much stronger if you can accurately refer to a research finding.

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