Parenting Styles: How They Shape a Childs Character in the Long Run

Name Institutional Affiliations Date Topic: Parenting Research Question: How does Parenting Style Shape the Child's Personality/Character in the long run? Introduction Parenting is a demanding responsibility as it entails engagements with the child from childhood through adulthood. It is not a simple task of taking care of an infant and abandoning the child along the way but rather an engaging responsibility of ensuring care and protection of the child throughout their lives. Therefore, one can define parenting as a complex process of raising children and ensuring protection and care to enhance healthy development into adulthood. Parenting is not a one-day affair but rather a lifetime responsibility that enables parents to play a major role in shaping the type of adults their children become in the long run. However, different parenting styles play a major role in determining the parent-child relationship, with each style having different effects on the child's behavior. Within this essay, a thorough analysis of different parenting styles will help respond to the extent of the effect that each style has in shaping the child's character in the long run. Parents play a major role in molding their children's behavior and attitude, thus the need to be conversant with the parenting style. It is the joy of every parent to bring up responsible children whose attitude towards life and others is always positive. Each parent's wish is that their children become role models to others in their childhood and adulthood. However, sometimes things go contrary to such expectations, and many parents become so disappointed by their children. Mackler et al. (2015) associate' parental stress with the parents' desires to meet the demands of raising a child with limited resources. Parental stress is also associated with several maladaptive child outcomes, either directly or indirectly, through negative parenting; thus, one needs to be conversant with the type of parenting style one exercises to avoid such in-eventualities (Mackler et al., 2015). The type of parenting style determines the relationship between the child and the mother or father. Such a relationship has significant effects on the child’s behavior and attitude towards life greatly. Authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved serve as the primary parenting styles whose effects on the child differ significantly and have the potential to shape such a child’s attitude towards the parents, society, and life in a great manner (Wittig and Rodriguez, 2019). Who are authoritarian parents, and what effects does such a parenting style have in shaping the child's character in the long run? Just as the word suggests, the authoritarian parenting style comes along with the parent's authority while engaging with the child. It is an extremely strict parenting style that places high expectation