For this first impression post, I chose to discuss parenting styles that I feel are the best. The prompt includes “tiger moms,” who give tough love, micromanage, and really push their children- sometimes too far. There is also “jellyfish dads,” who are very passive parents who tend to have little rules and try to avoid confrontation or punishment. “Helicopter parents” are considered to be obsessed with their child’s life and too involved, as well as overprotective. All of these parenting styles take away from the child’s ability to think for themselves, their problem solving skills, and their individuality. Children must make mistakes in order to learn and grow, but not allowing it or practicing it in the right way is detrimental to the child’s development.
I think it is important to find a middle ground that combines all of these parenting methods while still allowing for opportunity and freedom for the child. The best way I feel to do this is considered “dolphin parenting.” These parents begin by being more authoritative when their child is young, in a sense “hovering” and maybe a little overprotective to ensure they are being raised to be good people, stay out of harm’s way, and make good decisions so they can learn right from wrong. But as the kid grows older, provide instruction and guidance when needed, but let the child figure out more for themselves by trial and error and making mistakes. They can eventually transition to be more of a support system and grow more of a friendship with their child and be less seen as intimidating authoritative figures.
I believe that if more parents practice “dolphin parenting,” their children will be able to develop more individuality, character, values, interests, balance, and drive when given more space to learn things on their own. In turn, they will grow up to be happy, healthy, and productive members of society.
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I agree with you. The practice of “dolphin parenting”, or the “authoritative” style of parenting as we call it in class, seems to yield the best results in child development. This style retains the demanding characteristics associated with the “tiger mom”, but also displays accepting and responsive attributes of the “jellyfish dad”. Research has shown that this combination of characteristics creates an effective style of parenting that includes setting high standards, demanding hard work, warmth, and support. The authoritative parent is a common practice in most Western European and American cultural settings. It should be noted that while this practice of parenting has been shown to produce children successful in academics with less mental and behavioral problems, other styles of parenting are more easily understood and can produce different results in other cultures. For example, Asian countries are typically associated with the negative outcomes of authoritarian parenting. However, recent studies have shown that while the Asian cultures praise success over effort, many parents are more flexible and accepting of their children than previously thought. While it holds true in many circumstances that authoritative parenting is best style in yielding well-developed children, there are exceptions that exist in all kinds of parenting depending on the child and cultural environment.
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I agree with your suggestion to incorporate certain aspects of each parenting style to create the most ideal style for a child’s development. While tiger moms exhibit the authoritarian parenting style and are criticized for being “too hard,” they have high expectations for their children to succeed which can be a positive influence. On the opposite end of the spectrum, jellyfish dads exhibit the permissive parenting style and are criticized for being “too soft,” but they are still very accepting of their children which is also important. Helicopter parents are the extreme version of an authoritarian style where they expect their children to succeed but also must control every aspect of how they reach this success. You identify dolphin parenting as the best style which most closely aligns with the authoritative style in our textbook. Dolphin parents who use the authoritative style are “just right” because they find the balance that you mention in your post. I agree with your choice of the best parenting style, but we have to remember that this association established between parenting styles and childhood outcomes is a correlation. We cannot assume that the existence of a correlation is the same as the existence of causation. Parenting styles certainly influence the development of children, but there are many other factors that influence the person a child becomes. The authoritative parenting style does not necessarily cause the creation of a productive and happy child, as there are other influences children are exposed to during development such as their culture.
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