Parenting Styles
Different styles of parenting
Authoritarian: Demanding parents that expect their kids to listen no matter what and not question what they are saying.
Authoritative/Democratic: Strict rules but listen to their children's queations and respond with thought out answers. They ultimately want what is best for their children.
Permissive: Very rules, more of a friend than a parent. Don't like to discipline their children.
Uninvolved: Give their cildren what they want but don't communicate or are a part of their child's life.
Authoritarian: Demanding parents that expect their kids to listen no matter what and not question what they are saying.
Authoritative/Democratic: Strict rules but listen to their children's queations and respond with thought out answers. They ultimately want what is best for their children.
Permissive: Very rules, more of a friend than a parent. Don't like to discipline their children.
Uninvolved: Give their cildren what they want but don't communicate or are a part of their child's life.
Impact on children:
Authoritarian: Successful children that are usually unhappy and socially weird.
Authoritative/Democratic: Children end up happy, capable, and successful.
Permissive: Children are usually unhappy, have low self esteems, problems with authority, perform poorly in school.
Uninvolved: Children lack self control, low self esteem, less competent than peers.
Authoritarian: Successful children that are usually unhappy and socially weird.
Authoritative/Democratic: Children end up happy, capable, and successful.
Permissive: Children are usually unhappy, have low self esteems, problems with authority, perform poorly in school.
Uninvolved: Children lack self control, low self esteem, less competent than peers.
Attachment
Overview: During the first half of the 20t century, many psychologists believed that showing affection towards children was merely a sentimental gesture that served no real purpose. John B. Watson once told parents, "When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that motherly love is a dangerous instrument." Harry Harlow became interested in studying a topic that wasn't so easy to understand; love.
Harlow's Experiment
Harlow's most famous experiment (conducted at UW Madison) involved giving young rhesus monkeys a choice between two different fictional "mothers." One was made of a soft terrycloth, but did not provide food. The other "mother" was made of wire, but did provide the monkeys food from an attached baby bottle. Harlow took the young monkeys away from their natural mothers a few hours after birth and left them to be raised by the mother surrogates. As the experiment went on the monkeys spent most of their time with the cloth mother instead of the wire mother. The monkeys would turn to the cloth mother for comfort and security and the wire mother for food. Harlow then allowed the monkeys to explore the room with their mother and then without. When they had their cloth mother they used her as a secure base. Once the mothers were taken out of the room the monkeys would often freeze up, crouch, rock, scream, and cry.
Harlow's experiment concluded that love and affection are vital for a normal child to develop. Additional experiments done y Harlow reveal the long term devastation caused by deprivation, leading to profound psychological and emotional distress and even death.
Overview: During the first half of the 20t century, many psychologists believed that showing affection towards children was merely a sentimental gesture that served no real purpose. John B. Watson once told parents, "When you are tempted to pet your child, remember that motherly love is a dangerous instrument." Harry Harlow became interested in studying a topic that wasn't so easy to understand; love.
Harlow's Experiment
Harlow's most famous experiment (conducted at UW Madison) involved giving young rhesus monkeys a choice between two different fictional "mothers." One was made of a soft terrycloth, but did not provide food. The other "mother" was made of wire, but did provide the monkeys food from an attached baby bottle. Harlow took the young monkeys away from their natural mothers a few hours after birth and left them to be raised by the mother surrogates. As the experiment went on the monkeys spent most of their time with the cloth mother instead of the wire mother. The monkeys would turn to the cloth mother for comfort and security and the wire mother for food. Harlow then allowed the monkeys to explore the room with their mother and then without. When they had their cloth mother they used her as a secure base. Once the mothers were taken out of the room the monkeys would often freeze up, crouch, rock, scream, and cry.
Harlow's experiment concluded that love and affection are vital for a normal child to develop. Additional experiments done y Harlow reveal the long term devastation caused by deprivation, leading to profound psychological and emotional distress and even death.