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Dynamics of Parenting Styles
Dynamics of Parenting Styles
Dynamics of Parenting Styles
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Parenting is a huge responsibility that involves the nurturing, caring, instructing, educating, supporting and rearing of the total well-being of the child. This book explores the subject by examining the different styles of parenting and how it affects children behaviour. It has been written in a way that readers would be able to understand and identify with, buttressing the impact of each parenting style on child development with fables in the Nigerian context that illustrate their principles. The parenting styles examined in the book are the Authoritarian Parenting Style, the Permissive Parenting Style, the Authoritative Parenting Style and the Neglectful Parenting Style.

The author has written an interesting and easily understood book by relating it to real life situations. This book would be of immense value to parents, would be parents and other caregivers as they seek to nurture and develop a future generation that will make us proud.
- Dr. Atiemie Braide-Lolomari, Medical expert and family counselor.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 12, 2017
ISBN9781370318643
Dynamics of Parenting Styles
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Cynthia Amaka Obiorah

Cynthia Amaka Obiorah is a graduate of Mass Communication from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. She also possesses an MSc. in Public Relations, an MSc. in Occupations Health and Safety and is currently pursuing a PhD. in Occupational Health and Safety. She has pursued a career in Sales/Safety Engineering and is certified both locally and internationally in Safety Engineering. She is passionate about writing and expressing principles in a way that people are able to understand and relate with. Her love for children and the need for them to be understood and nurtured accordingly has inspired her to write this book on Parenting Styles. She is also the co-author of The Power of a Woman with Christian C. Adipue. Amaka is married to Dr. Obiorah and they are blessed with children.

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    Dynamics of Parenting Styles - Cynthia Amaka Obiorah

    Dynamics of Parenting Styles

    Cynthia Amaka Obiorah

    Copyright 2017 Cynthia Amaka Obiorah

    Published by Paperworth Books at Smashwords

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    Content

    Foreword

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 Children Need Parents

    Chapter 2 Authoritarian Parenting Style

    Chapter 3 Authoritative Parenting Style

    Chapter 4 Permissive Parenting Style

    Chapter 5 Neglectful Parenting Style

    Chapter 6 Impact of Authoritarian Parenting

    Chapter 7 Impact of Authoritative Parenting

    Chapter 8 Impact of Permissive Parenting

    Chapter 9 Impact of Neglectful Parenting

    Chapter 10 Reflections

    References

    Acknowledgements

    About the Author

    The place, events and characters in the illustrative aspects of this book are all fictitious. Any similarities to actual places, situations, events or characters living or dead are coincidental.

    Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

    - Proverbs 22:6.

    Foreword

    The author of this book Mrs. Cynthia Amaka Obiorah is an accomplished Occupational Health and Safety professional, a mother, a loving wife, a marriage counselor and an advocate of effective parenting. Her book focuses on the benefits of effective parenting and how this will have a positive impacts on the family and the larger society. She emphasises the fact that parenting goes beyond being a biological parent and that proper parenting is an uphill task and a full time job and as such requires a lot of patience, wisdom and sacrifice.

    The importance of communication in successful parenting cannot be over emphasised. If there is improper communication, conflicts are bound to arise between the parents and the children especially the adolescents. If parents fail to model the child in the way and fear of God, they may lose them to societal deceivers and destiny destroyers. This will spell doom to the society and lead to increasing moral decadence.

    A very noteworthy aspect of this book is that the author clearly states that it is the responsibility of parents to meet their children’s every need.  Some parents actually think it is the duty of teachers and spiritual leaders to instill the child’s moral values. When the parents fail in this respect, the children lose their self-esteem and sense of self-worth.

    It was enlightening to discover that parenting styles are numerous and that each of them have an impact on the children’s present and future behaviors as these children in turn tend to use the same parenting styles they were raised with when they become parents.

    The author has written an interesting and easily understood book by relating it to real life situations.

    This book would be of immense value to parents, would be parents and other caregivers as they seek to nurture and develop a future generation that will make us proud. More grease to the elbow of the author.

    Dr. Atiemie Braide-Lolomari

    Medical expert and family counselor.

    Introduction

    The love and romance between couples may come and go but the love and bond between a parent and child is one of the strongest connections that exists in human nature. Parenting is beyond making and birthing a baby. It is an encompassing responsibility that includes the process of nurturing, caring, instructing, educating, supporting and rearing the total well-being of the child. To do this successfully, parents need to identify and cater to the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, financial, social, psychological and intellectual needs of their children, from conception to adulthood.

    Parenting is not restricted to one’s biological offspring alone, but also includes the raising of every child within your sphere of responsibility and influence either in extended family settings or through foster arrangements. The popular bible verse in Proverbs 22:6 refers to ‘a’ child and not specifically your child, signifying that the responsibility of parenting need not necessarily stem from a biological responsibility alone.

    Children as human beings arrive here with their own distinct personalities and characteristics exhibiting their independent minds which are often imaginative and creative with strong desires for self-expression and exploration. Therefore, raising them properly can seem like an uphill task for parents especially because they do not come with a manufacturer’s handbook or any manuals stipulating guidelines and sets of instruction on how to use or operate, switch off, reboot, reset, or troubleshoot them. Parents therefore have to figure out on their own on how best to rear their children so that they are equipped to live and fully function independently in their world. The responsibility of this role should surpass existing cultures and trends especially because scientific identification of what children need for development has not changed much over time. While there is a tendency for parents to strive for perfection as they raise their children, this may not be possible as studies have shown that over parenting just like under parenting have produced behavioural problems in children. Therefore it is advisable that all parents aim for a balance in raising their children.

    This book therefore, seeks to explore existing narratives on how best one can raise strong and balanced children who are able to succeed in the world they find themselves in. The book explores the subject from the perspective of the role of the parents and then investigates the different styles of parenting, buttressing their impact on child development with a few fables that illustrate the principles.

    It is hoped that the information shared in this book will encourage parents and all care-givers to devote the love, time, attention and instruction needed to adequately rear their children and wards to be well balanced and successful individuals.

    Chapter 1

    Children Need Parents

    Parenting is not a part-time job, it is a full time one because a child needs their parents’ qualitative and quantitative love, time, attention and direction. At the right times, these go a long way in making them

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