Parenting Approaches and Styles

Question 1

What are the 4 parenting styles?

Answer 1

1. Authoritative
2. Authoritarian
3. Permission
4. Uninvolved or Neglectful

Question 2

Define Authoritative Parenting

Answer 2

Having high levels of warmth and high levels of structure

Question 3

What are the outcomes for authoritative parenting?

Answer 3

• higher academic achievement
• less likely to exhibit behavior problems or engage in risky behaviors
• more cooperative with siblings, peers, adults
• positive psychosocial maturity
• Higher reasoning skills, empathy, altruism

Question 4

Define Authoritarian Parenting

Answer 4

Low levels of warmth, high levels of structure and control

Question 5

What are the outcomes for authoritarian parenting?

Answer 5

• Develop a negative self-concept
• Believe they are unloveable
• Become rebellious or self-destructive

Question 6

Define Permission Parenting

Answer 6

High levels of warmth, low levels of structure

Question 7

What are the outcomes for permissive parenting?

Answer 7

• lower academic achievement
• lack of impulse control
• less mature, self-reliant, socially responsible and independent
• Diminished self-regulatory abilities

Question 8

Define uninvolved or neglectful parenting

Answer 8

Low levels of warmth, low levels of structure

Question 9

What are the outcomes for uninvolved parenting?

Answer 9

• feel unimportant
• engage in attention seeking behaviors
• withdraw

Question 10

What is the “no-lose method of conflict resolution”?

Answer 10

• Describe the problem
• Generate possible resolutions
• Assessing possible solutions
• Determining the best solution
• Carrying out the decision
• Performing a follow-up assessment

Question 11

What is the appropriate way to discipline a child?

Answer 11

• Guide the children to desired behaviors
• Can’t say “stop, don’t do that, no” it doesn’t teach them the “why”
• Tell the kids what they can do
• rules and discipline should be structured
• build self-regulation and self-efficacy
• develop social skills and behaviors
• should be positive, reasonable, and consistent

Question 12

Define helicopter parents

Answer 12

Someone who rescues children form doing hard things; thinking they should just do it themselves

Question 13

Define praise

Answer 13

Praise is a value judgement and is often tied to the outcome of the child’s performance

Question 14

Define encouragement

Answer 14

Encouragement can help reinforce our children’s self-esteem and inspire self-reflection

Question 15

Define validation

Answer 15

Someone who confirms another person is right, or that their feelings matter

Question 16

Define induction

Answer 16

Increasing a child’s awareness of the likely consequences of their actions

Question 17

What are the foul goals of misbehavior?

Answer 17

1. Attention
2. Power and Control
3. Revenge
4. Inadequacy

Question 18

If you feel annoyed, the child’s goal is ____?

Answer 18

Attention
- a need for contact or a belonging
- want to feel loved and acknowledgement

Question 19

If you feel beaten, threatened, or intimidated, a child’s goal is ____?

Answer 19

Power and Control
- kids want a sense of control and autonomy over their environment in some way

Question 20

If you feel wronged or hut, a child’s goal is ___?

Answer 20

Revenge
- a child needs protection and to be shown love and empathy

Question 21

If you feel incapable of helping the child in any way and want to step in and do it for him, the child’s goal is ___?

Answer 21

Inadequacy
- kids need time to regroup

Question 22

What are the four pluses and a wish?

Answer 22

1. Smile
2. Relaxed body language
3. Say the child’s name
4. Compliment the child
5. Make a request of the child

Question 23

What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

Answer 23

• Physiological
• Safety
• Love and Belonging
• Esteem
• Self-Actualization