How To Parent Together When Your Parenting Styles Are Worlds Apart
Parenting book by parent /child relationship expert, Lisa Dunning, helps parents with discipline, stepparenting & blended family issues. Lisa and her husband, Brad, have different childhood backgrounds, resulting in different parenting styles.
By sharing their personal experiences along with Lisa Dunning’s experienced insight, practical tips, skills, advice, games, and exercise this book stands alone from other parenting books as an inspiration to all parents who struggle to raise their children together.
Lisa provides parents with the tools necessary to work together as a team to raise a healthy, responsible and successful child.
Parenting Styles
Diana Baumrind, a developmental psychologist at the University of California-Berkeley in the 1960s, is largely responsible for the parenting styles commonly used in psychology today. Upon observing over 100 preschool children, Baumrind noticed a pattern in the different behavior the children displayed.
Each distinctive type of behavior was found to connect to a specific type of parenting. She identified these parenting styles as authoritarian, permissive, or authoritative. Maccoby and Martin expanded upon the parenting styles model in the 1980s, adding a fourth style (uninvolved/neglectful).
Baumrind’s theory supports Maccoby and Martin’s research. He believes different parenting styles can lead to different child behavior and development types.
Assessing your parenting style provides you with an opportunity to gain invaluable insight into the interactions you have with your children. Your parenting style can affect every aspect of your child’s life.
For example, the way you discipline and interact with your child will influence everything from their weight to their self-esteem. These effects are likely to stay with them long into adulthood. Therefore, it’s important to make certain your parenting style is supportive of your child’s growth and development.
