Week of April 2nd

Learning about the different parenting styles, such as Authoritarian, Authoritative, Neglectful, and Permissive, makes it a little more helpful. I think that telling parents, teachers, or other policy makers about these different parenting styles would be a tough conversation. I feel like many parents/caregivers should be open to learning different parenting styles, because it could possibly help the child's future. One danger of telling the public about these parenting styles is, parents either may not be open to change their parenting style at all and they may get angry with you, and if a parent/caregiver were to try out a new parenting style and it didn't go well, they may blame you for it.  I think that it would be a good idea to discuss snowplow and helicopter parenting with parents. Learning new skills and different things about parenting could be very helpful in the long run. Parents may realize that they aren't doing something to the best that they can.