| Effective parenting technique is a puzzling topic that | | | | You can do age-specific activities or discipline in order |
| sometimes burnt out experts and became a topic of | | | | to set limitations but not to a point of taking full control |
| brewing debates. However, developmental | | | | over your child's life. Parents, themselves, need to |
| psychologists only began to study parenting and its | | | | acknowledge differences in personality styles, ideas, |
| influences on children in the 1920's. Most experts | | | | and life perspectives especially when a child has |
| studying the most effective parenting technique rely on | | | | grown into an adolescent. |
| the concept of Diana Baumrind's three parenting styles, | | | | Other experts, meanwhile, advocate attachment |
| in which was found the authoritative parenting style to | | | | parenting as the effective parenting technique to use |
| be the most balanced and healthiest. | | | | on infants. Dr. William Sears and his wife, Martha, were |
| Parenting can be seen as broad and limitless, when | | | | the first to describe attachment parenting as a style |
| taking into consideration the differences in family | | | | that highly demands responsiveness from parents. This |
| values within the context of the norm, religious | | | | style of parenting negates the popular belief of not |
| concepts, and many other ideals that shape the way | | | | responding to a baby's cry immediately so as not to |
| parents deal with their children. Yet, failure in parenting | | | | spoil him/her. Attachment parenting advocates believe |
| cannot be solely blamed on specific instances but is | | | | that crying is a baby's instinctive and survival tool, |
| seen as a typology of general practices of parents. | | | | which is their only means of communication to the |
| So what is the effective parenting technique? As | | | | world. |
| broad as it might sound, authoritative parenting | | | | Both authoritative and attachment parenting are found |
| combines parental responsiveness and parental | | | | to be the most effective parenting styles today, with |
| demandingness vis-à-vis the age of a child. | | | | studies showing positive results from children raised |
| Parental responsiveness describes a parent's intent to | | | | with these styles of parenting. Attachment parenting, in |
| foster self-regulation, individuality, and self-assertion by | | | | particular, advocates emotional closeness between |
| being supportive of and adjusting to a child's needs | | | | parents and child to promote self-esteem and social |
| and desires. Parental demandingness relates more to | | | | competency later in life. Looking closely, these two |
| controlling a child's behavior that is seen as | | | | styles of effective parenting techniques have |
| inappropriate, and a parent's willingness to enforce | | | | similarities in terms of responding to children's needs |
| gentle disciplinary efforts, and confronting a child who | | | | and correcting ill behaviors in order to raise intellectually, |
| intentionally disobeys or has committed a mistake. | | | | emotionally, and socially-competitive individuals. |