Examples of Parenting Styles PDF

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Assignment discussing different parenting styles- authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved and those examples within the media. I mainly focused on examples within television shows and movies because those were what I am most comfortable with. For further examples with all of the par...

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Examples of Parenting Styles 1. Authoritative Parenting: Stu and Didi from The Rugrats. Though these parents did have their stressful encounters, as I’m sure every parent experiences at one time, Stu and Didi were highly involved in the lives and development of Tommy and Dil. Though the children were unattended a good amount of the time, they were, for the most part, partaking in their adventures when they were in the care of Grandpa Lou. In regard to the Pickles parents, they clearly created an environment that allowed for many imaginative opportunities- this possibly has something to do with Stu’s chosen profession as a toy inventor. Didi took every opportunity to research proper parenting- the ever-present Lipschitz. There were many episodes in which we see Didi bringing the kids to social and educational environments. This paired with Stu’s efforts to create interesting and age appropriate toys for the group of children fostered their growing autonomy. 2. Authoritarian Parenting: I believe that the father from 10 Things I Hate About You, Walter Stratford, fits this description of parenting at the beginning of the movie. However, we do see a lot of character development on his part. At the beginning of the movie, Mr. Stratford comes off as controlling in specific regard to his daughters and their social lives, particularly dating. This probably has a lot to do with Mr. Stratford’s position as a labor delivery doctor. He says at one point “Today I delivered a pair of twins to a 16 year-old girl. Do you know what she said to me? She said ‘I should have listened to my father.’” Throughout the movie, we learn that his controlling nature probably comes from losing his wife after she left their family a four years prior. I think that Walter fits this parenting style in the beginning of the movie mostly because of his resistance to his daughter leaving to attend college. He tells her “you’re 18, you don’t know what you want. You won’t know what you want until you’re 40 and, even if you get it, you’ll be too old to use it.” To which she responds “I want to go to an East Coast school. I want to you to trust me to make my own choices and I want you to stop trying to controlling my life because you can’t control yours.” This argument between the two of them about the school stays constant until the last five minutes in the movie.

3. Permissive Parenting: Lorelai Gilmore from Gilmore Girls. Lorelai spends much of the first three seasons as a totally supportive parent. She states many times throughout these seasons that she is Rory’s best friend. Though she does say in the very first episode “...then we can finally have a normal motherdaughter relationship,” she treats Rory like a friend rather than a daughter. She tells her about her love life and allows Rory to make many of her own decisions. Granted, Rory is presented as an extremely gifted child, deemed more mature than others her age by nearly every adult she encounters, I believe she was given too much control to make her own decisions and too much babying when things didn’t go her way. This follows her into adulthood when she falls flat on her face when life, college, and finding a job are harder than high school was. She was not set up for success and given accurate training for adult life. 4. Uninvolved Parenting: Caroline Nash from Degrassi. Caroline Nash is the mother of Ellie Nash in the popular Canadian television show Degrassi. Caroline’s husband holds some sort of military position in which he is gone often and for long periods of time. To deal with the loneliness and stress that comes with holding a house together on one’s own, Caroline takes to drinking. We are introduced to her as she is nearly passed out on the couch and Ellie leans down to give her a kiss on her out of the door to school. Ellie ends up harming herself and isolating herself from many of her peers with one friend that stays with her throughout high school, Marco, who also has problems with his parents that arise after he comes out to them and they do not accept him. Ellie ends up moving out of her mother’s house before she finishes high school and moves in with another high schooler with absentee parents named Sean. Ellie is significantly impacted by the way she was raised and constantly thinks back to her dad and how much she misses him, but her mom definitely turned her shoulder to her and Ellie endured a lot of time not being a priority for her mom and emotional neglect at first and then neglect to keep food in the house or provide Ellie with other necessary resources to be successful in school or in her social life....