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Is Your Parenting Style Putting Your Teen at Risk? (Part 2)

Last updated on September 26, 2013 by Sozo Staff Leave a Comment

In Part 1, we looked at three parenting styles that can put your teen at risk: authoritarian parenting, overprotective parenting, and permissive parenting. When raising their children, most parents default to either their experience in how they were raised by their own parents, or they revolt against their upbringing and instead employ the polar opposite parenting style. For example, many who grew up under an authoritarian parenting style will either mimic their own fear-based upbringing or go full-swing into permissive parenting, allowing their children to avoid the kind of negativity and scarring that they endured while growing up. Thankfully, though, there is a fourth parenting style, one that is successful and healthy. This style is called positive parenting.

Before we explain positive parenting, let’s review the main goals of the three parenting styles we examined in Part 1:

  • Authoritarian parenting: Parents control children with fear and punishment, expecting unquestioning obedience.
  • Overprotective parenting: Also known as “helicopter parenting,” parents limit children’s freedoms to an extreme degree because of their own fears of the dangers in the world around them.
  • Permissive parenting: Children are granted too many freedoms and are not given boundaries or expectations.

In contrast to all of those parenting styles, the aim of positive parenting is empowerment to grow and learn, which is accomplished through active parental guidance. Unlike the authoritarian or overprotective parent, the guidance that the positive parent provides includes reasoning and two-way communication.

While parents give clear expectations and take an active role in parenting, the motivation they provide is not based in fear, but clearly communicated goals. Like the permissive parent’s aims, the result is a sort of freedom, but one that come without concerns of emotional neglect or a lack of boundaries. The growth that naturally results promotes self-control and true maturity in teens.

The goals of a Positive parenting are likely the goals of all caring parents; however, a positive parenting style is the only type of parenting that has true success in meeting these goals. With positive parenting, teens are capable of:

  • Taking personal responsibility for their actions
  • Growing in their personal effectiveness
  • Strengthening their individual convictions

But how does the positive parent achieve these seemingly difficult goals? First, they become students of their children’s unique capabilities. This means that positive parents realize that while teens require some freedom and a chance to express their individuality, they can handle only so much freedom during the early years.

Second, positive parents realize that as parents, their age provides them with more experience, greater knowledge, and access to better resources than their children possess. The power inherent in age gives them greater responsibility as parents, making them better-equipped to guide their children than the children are to guide themselves. At the same time, these model parents sacrificially and actively model and teach their children to act responsibly.

Third, positive parents make a habit of explaining specific expectations during times of non-conflict and inviting discussion from their teens. Consequences are also communicated unemotionally and before agreements go unmet. Unlike the authoritarian parent’s punishments, however, the results of failure to comply are part of helping their teens develop discipline, rather than being merely punitive.

While the positive parent gradually relinquishes control, giving teens more freedom each year, that freedom is directly linked to a growing level of responsibility that promotes true independence and maturity. Thus, when self-governed teens are away from parents, they still possess the ability to make wise choices.

But no matter how skilled you might be as a parent, sometimes teens just will not respond to your efforts. While some level of rebellion and disobedience is to be expected from all teenagers, if your teen’s defiant, destructive, dangerous, or illegal behavior has gotten out of hand, it could be time to seek help from a well-qualified outside source.

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