The family is a place in which children learn to interpret reality. Parents serve as significant interpreters for children of information about the world and children's abilities. They are children’s first teachers. Parents want their children to grow into socially mature individuals, and they may feel frustrated in trying to discover the best way to accomplish this development.
Parenting styles are broad patterns of child rearing practices, values, and behaviors. According to Diana Baumrind, four types of parenting styles are indulgent (more responsive than demanding), authoritarian (highly demanding and directive but not responsive), authoritative (both demanding and responsive), and indulgent (low in responsiveness and demanding ness)
Children from authoritarian family are often aggressive, fearful, and anxious, they often have weak communication skills. Children associated with authoritative parenting, are happy, cheerful, self-controlled and cope with stress. Children from indulgent family are aggressive, spoiled, and noncompliant, they have difficulties in peer relations. Children associated with neglectful parenting are lack of self-control, social incompetence and delinquency.
Children’s emotions are often affected by parenting. Parents are kids’ first important teachers. According to John Gottman, “Parents are kids’ emotion coachers, and they teach their kids strategies to deal with life’s ups and downs. Even more than IQ, emotional awareness an英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】d ability to handle feelings will determine one’s success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships”(P20-21). So it’s very important to use good parenting at home. Authoritative parentings is the best parenting style, because it is good for children’s emotion development, and because authoritative parents acknowledge their children’s feelings and accept them unconditionally, they can set acceptable standards, and they help to promote children’s independence.
Authoritative parents can understand their children’s feeling and teach them how to regulate them. They often help them to find appropriate outlets to solve problems. John Gottman said, “They don’t ignore or deny their kids’ feelings. Nor do they belittle or ridicule their children for emotional expression” (P38). They have knowledge of their children’s feeling. For example, my son felt very sad and worried when he heard his best friend would move to another city. He talked to me about that: “ My best friend will move next month. Whom can I play with?” I understood his feeling, and said, “ I’m sorry to hear that. Don’t worry. His new home is not far from here. We can visit him and he can come back to visit us. Also, you can make another good friend. You will face lots of separation in your life. You should be strong.” I also told him about my sadness. After talking, he felt better and began to know how to handle this kind of situation. Authoritative parents have a strong awareness of their
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