Name and describe the most successful approach to child rearing, noting the benefits of this approach

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The authoritative child-rearing style involves high acceptance and involvement, adaptive control techniques, and appropriate autonomy granting. Authoritative parents are warm, attentive, and sensitive to their child's needs. They establish an enjoyable, emotionally fulfilling parent–child relationship that draws the child into close connection. At the same time, authoritative parents exercise firm, reasonable control: They insist on appropriate maturity, give reasons for their expectations, use disciplinary encounters as "teaching moments" to promote the child's self-regulation, and monitor their child's whereabouts and activities. Finally, authoritative parents engage in gradual, appropriate autonomy granting, allowing the child to make decisions in areas where he or she is ready to make choices. They also place a premium on communication, encouraging the child to express his or her thoughts, feelings, and desires. And when parent and child disagree, authoritative parents engage in joint decision making when possible. Their willingness to accommodate to the child's perspective increases the likelihood that the child will listen to their perspective in situations where compliance is vital.
Throughout childhood and adolescence, authoritative parenting is linked to many aspects of competence—an upbeat mood, self-control, task persistence, academic achievement, cooperativeness, high self-esteem, responsiveness to parents' views, and social and moral maturity.