Permissive Parenting Style Is Often A Dangerous Form Of Parenting

Permissive parents think nothing of allowing their children to walk up to them to state precisely what they (the children) want or need. This form of parenting style is unsurprisingly known as the permissive parenting style and parents only realize that it might not be the best parenting style when they open their bank statements and see that there is not much of a balance remaining. The main drawback to the permissive parenting style is that parents often fail to realize – let along enforce – boundaries within which they (the parents) and the child must coexist.

On the plea of providing their children with an opportunity to experiment with their lives and discover things for themselves, parents that make use of the permissive parenting style will often give their children a lot of rope to do as they please. In fact, the foundation on which the permissive parenting style is formed actually lays more stress that children should be given what they want and that there is no real need to set boundaries that normally would have helped in promoting healthier relationships.

Most parents that employ the permissive parenting style will generally find it very hard to say no to their children and will hardly try and limit what their children are permitted to do and also what they are not permitted to do. Most experts feel that the permissive parenting style is one that can be called a compensatory type of parenting in which the parent tries to compensate with their children regarding the latter’s needs and wants.

Obviously, the reason why parents would choose the permissive parenting style is that they themselves grew in families and in environments in which they did not receive any real discipline and were allowed a lot of latitude in what was permitted and what was not.

The result of a parent’s own upbringing is reflected in the way that they end up parenting their children and in most cases if the parent was allowed plenty of leeway in their homes then they will also allow their children the same rights and privileges.

Another form of parenting, the democratic parenting style is really nothing but a combination of two other parenting styles: authoritarian and also permissive parenting styles. This form of parenting style tries to draw the best of authoritarian and permissive parenting styles in the hope that parents that use this parenting style will be able to succeed in providing their children with a better life.