What follows is a discussion about the exciting role of being a parent.
The saying is that there are as many different styles of parenting as there are parents.
However, experts in the field believe that parenting can be confined into just four different styles that can be easily recognized.
They are uninvolved, authoritative, indulgent and authoritarian.
What we are going to do is get a bit more detailed and discuss each of these four styles of parenting in turn.

1. For the style of parenting labeled as uninvolved, it means exactly that.
   The parents just are not getting involved in being a parent.
   They tend not to demand anything from their children.
   They show absolute lack of interest in their kids; they do not respond to any of their children's behavior nor do they solicit any kind of feedback from their children.
   It is this style of uninvolved parenting that is often associated with irresponsible parenting and parental neglect.
   
2. The next style of parenting is what is deemed an authoritative parent.
   What defines these parents is the fact that they are simultaneously responsive and demanding.
   These are the parents that like to govern by rules of behavior and expectations that they set for their children, while at the same time they aren't dictatorial towards those behaviors and allow their children to question the rules up to a certain extent.
   Those with this style of parenting are defined by being able to be assertive toward what they expect from their children combined with being able to listen to the feedback from them.
   Because of this parenting style, the children behave in a much more happy and lively manner.
   Self-confidence is high as these kids show a surety of ability more advanced than other children.
   They also appear to be more in control of their emotions and more competent with their social skills.
   Authoritative parents are not really bothered by stereo types and have no problem seeing their daughters playing with cars, hammers and screwdrivers or their sons having a tea party or putting the dolls to bed.
   
3. The indulgent parent is a lenient parent.
   They let their children get away with a great many activities that other parents would deem immature.
   Basically, these parents allow their children to govern themselves; it's very much a hands-off, no confrontational parenting.
   Parents who are indulgent have often been labeled as democratic in their style or non-directive at times.
   Those parents who are non-directive will not really utilize any parenting behavior toward their children.
   Democratic parents, on the other hand, lenient as they might be, do show an awareness of what their children are doing and are interacting with them.
   
4. That brings us to the authoritarian parent.
   Think of a general in the army.
   These parents love barking orders and expect their children/soldiers to act on those orders without fail and without question.
   There is no room for feedback from their children and any attempt at giving any will result in being shut out.
   These parents have a rigid and structured set of rules that they expect everyone to live by and neither deviation nor defiance will be tolerated.
   As expected, this often results in unhappy children.
   Boys will become frustrated with this kind of life and act out their frustration in a hostile and destructive manner, and the girls just cave in when placed in tough situations.
   The only upside to this style of parenting is that these children do much better with their school performance because of their rigid and disciplined home life.
   

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