Now that you have had a chance to digest several types of parenting styles and s

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Now that you have had a chance to digest several types of parenting styles and strategies, including the ones from the book, check out Love and Logic (https://www.loveandlogic.com/), a popular brand of parenting seminars. I’ve directed you to their “About Us” page, but I’d like you to search around the site until you get a general feeling for their approach. You can also read Parenting with Love and Logic for a brief summary of it guiding principles.

Then, respond to each of the following prompts in your initial post for this discussion:

Which of Baumrind’s styles (Authoritarian, Permissive, Authoritative) do you think most closely aligns with the Love and Logic approach? Make sure to address the characteristics of parenting styles (warmth, discipline, maturity, and communication) in your explanation.

Based on what you’ve learned about development during early childhood, what are some of the cognitive and behavioral outcomes that you might expect from a child whose caregiver used the Love and Logic approach?

Compare this approach to one of the other parenting approaches or the approach that your caregivers used. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Use specific examples to demonstrate your understanding.

Explanation / Answer

These are the four types of Parenting styles which are defined by the Baumrind. My parents always used authoritative parenting style, I was a luck child to have strict as well as loving parents. I suppose love and logic is also showcasing the same. In those days in 1990s the parenting styles were not that popular or it was not that much talk of town as today. There are websites based on parenting and its styles. Love and logic is saying that parents are providing effective strategies of parenting, these strategies itself means that there has to be balance between giving freedom to children as well as disciplining them. The child should feel warmth of the parents, the parents should not have cold approach or neglectful approach of parenting, what the disciplines which they are outlining should be communicated well to the children by using fun and discipline approach. By communicating in such ways the children become mature enough to face the world or even to place the pressure. As authoritarian parenting style makes child very uneasy or repressed during fearful situations as well as permissive parenting style would make them stubborn or unadaptable to the situation.

I guess the caretaker who is using love and logic approach would expect the child is happy in following the discipline, the child talks properly, is polite as well as fun loving. For those who have quiet shy child who is not mixing with others would have a child who would mix up and is comfortable in parties. For those who have hyper active child would have disciplined child as well as happy kid. The parents might expect they would get to know many techniques of good parenting.

I don't think so that there are any disadvantages, because good parenting is essential for good growth of child. Advantages would be that child would be adjustable, polite and would not loose his control during fearful situations, he would also enjoy and give joy of the moments he comes across.

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