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Chapter 7 Activity: Parenting Styles (This activity is worth 15 points) In the mid-1960s, Dr. Diana Baumrind identified three parenting styles (authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive). Each of us has experienced, to some degree, the types of styles that Dr. Baumrind described, through growing up with a parent who displayed one of the styles, through teachers who were exceptionally strict or exceptionally lenient, through a really good basketball coach, a boss at work, etc. Your task is to identify one of the people who served as an authority figure to you through some part of your childhood. Identify: 1) the role that they played; 2) which type of parenting (read “teaching”, “coaching”) style they displayed toward you; 3) the types of behaviors they displayed toward you, and finally; 4) the immediate and long-term effects of their style on you as a person.

1) What was the role of the person who served in the role of authority? My dad represents authoritative parenting. Although he had greater control, he tend to be warm and responsive towards me.

2) Which type of parenting (teaching, coaching, etc.) style do you think they generally displayed and why would you describe it that way? My dad often displayed authoritarian parenting when I did bad but as I got older it became authoritative parenting. I would describe it this way because he just really cared about me but also knew constantly yelling at me would make me feel worse.

3) Describe some of the behaviors that the person displayed and explain how they were characteristic of that style of authority. He displayed feedback through reinforcement which really helped me. For example, he rewarded me with a car if I got good grades. This really motivated me to do good school and then I finally realized I didn’t need rewards to do good. My dad was a good coach and it changed my behavior.

4) Describe some of the immediate and long-term effects of that style on you and your development. The outcomes of the effects motivated me to continue to do better in school and achieve my dad and my own goals. Now I continue to receive coaching from my dad as well as feedback without reinforcements....