Parenting Guidelines for Parents: What Kind of Mom Are You?

Learn about the four styles of parenting guidelines, identify what kind of mother you are and what you would like to be.

Surely you have noticed the differences between the way you educate your children and how your friends or family do, Do these differences mean that they do it well and you do it badly? In reality, there are different parenting styles that follow very different parenting guidelines:

rigid style

In this model obedience is very important. There are many rigid, incontrovertible and often arbitrary rules. Its compliance is understood as respect for authority and its non-compliance generates punishments.

negotiating style

Rules and limits are negotiated with the children in response to both their wishes and the concerns of the parents. Consequences for breaching the rules can also be negotiated.

Indulgent

Parents trust the decisions that their children make, they give them a lot of freedom and margin of action, they allow them to be guided by their interests and impulses. There are not many rules and non-compliance does not generate serious consequences.

situational

In this category there are no defined breeding guidelinesthe rules are not clear and vary greatly in relation to the state of mind of the parents in each particular situation.

Which of these four groups do you identify with? Which do you think is better to educate your children?

With information from: Conceptions about parenting: the thoughts of mothers and fathers