The adolescent period is nerve-racking for both parents as well as teens. Teens experience a number of developmental adjustments including biological, emotional, communal, and cognitive changes in their journey to becoming mature adults. Parenting successfully during the teen years, requires a careful indulgence of these developmental transformation.

Understanding the different parenting trends provides a basis for many healthy developmental outcomes during the phase of adolescence.

There are four primary parenting trends:

1. Authoritative Parents: They are warm but firm. They persuade their adolescents to be independent but at the same time they sustain restrictions and manage their actions. They do not summon rules on their children, instead are willing to consider, pay attention to, and take into account their child’s point of view. Authoritative parents take on discussions and debates with their teenager, though final responsibility reside with the parent. Authoritative parents study how to discuss and negotiate and they recognize that their outlook is respected and appreciated. As a consequence, they are more likely to be communally capable, responsible and independent.

2. Authoritarian Parents: Authoritarian Parents exhibit little warmth and immense controlling. They are firm disciplinarians, use a preventive, restraining, corrective manner and persist that their teenager follows parental guidelines. They do not take on discussions with their child and family rules are not debated. They believe that the child should abide by their rules without raising questions or arguments. Authoritarian Parents study that following parental rule and obedience to discipline is respected over independent behavior. This makes the child disobedient, unruly and dependent. Thus they become aggressive.

3. Permissive Parents: Permissive parents are warm and straightforward. They are generous, tolerant and submissive in their parenting. They believe that the means to show love to the child is by giving in to their desires. They do not like to refuse their child for anything or disappoint them in anyway. Permissive Parents do not view themselves as lively participants  in determining their child’s actions , instead they consider themselves as a resource and leave it completely to the child to decide whether to seek the parents advice or not. Permissive Parents learn that are very little limitations and that consequences are not expected to be very severe. Thus the teens have a difficulty with self control and discipline.

4. Uninvolved Parents: They are not warm and have no demands from their child. They do not interact much with the child and are totally uninvolved. They are uncaring towards their child’s requirements, whereabouts, wants or experiences in school or with peers. They study that parents are concerned about their own lives and less liable to devote time in parenting. Thus the teens reveal reckless and brash behavior.

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