Developmental Psychology - Over-Protective Parenting

Running head: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY – OVER–PROTECTIVE PARENTING
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY – OVER–PROTECTIVE PARENTING
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Over–protective Parenting
Parenting refers to the activity of rearing a child according to certain strategies. The
parents are often observed to implement various strategies in order to rear their child and guide
them in their pathway of life. The parenting quality of the concerned parent is essential for the
development of the psyche of the child. The parenting quality can thus at times prove to be more
essential than the time that the concerned parent spends with the child. The literature identifies
four different styles of parenting that are generally depicted by the parents. These include the
authoritarian or the disciplinarian style of leadership, the permissive or the indulgent parenting,
the authoritative parenting and the uninvolved style of parenting (Zarra‐Nezhad et al., 2014). The
following paper attempts a discussion on the matters that pertain to the authoritarian style of
parenting. The paper opens with a discussion and the definition of the authoritarian style of
parenting. The paper then proceeds to discuss the matters that are related to the effects of the
authoritarian parenting style on the concerned children. The paper also attempts to shed light on
the advantages of the style. The paper nears the conclusion with the limitations of the concerned
style of parenting.
The over protective nature of parenting depicted by the concerned guardians of the child
tends to have a huge impact on the development of the psyche of the child. The authoritarian
style of parenting is characterized by the involvement of the parents who are generally observed
to be very strict in nature. The authoritarian parents are known to be extremely demanding in
nature. However, the authoritarian parents tend to display low responsiveness towards the
concerned children. These type of parenting that is related to the strictness that is executed by the
concerned members of the organization (Steinberg & Darling, 2017). The authoritarian parenting
style allows a very low sphere for the open conversation among the children and their parents.

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This style of parenting involves the instructions to the concerned children on the ways that define
the kind of behavior that is expected from them. The children are majorly found to be dealt with
in a strict manner thereby leading to the conditions wherein the children are always found to be
apprehensive about making mistakes or faltering in delivering the proper attitude towards the
situation that they might have been facing during a given scenario (Doepke & Zilibotti, 2017).
The authoritarian style of parenting involves the strictness on the part of parents which further
leads to the creation of a distance in the communication within the family (Schiffrin et al., 2014).
The authoritarian parents are often found to be relying on the reprimands and punishments that
are extended towards the children in order to demand the obedience of the concerned children.
The parents also known to have been relying on the methods of punishments in order to provide
the concerned children with the necessary amount of lessons that might be needed in their ways
of life.
The authoritarian style of parenting affects the concerned children in various aspects of
their development. The authoritarian style of the parenting tends to involve all the processes that
are involved in the proper development of the child. However, the excessive strictness of the
parents on the activities of the child leads to hampering the development of the concerned child.
The authoritarian parenting also known as the hovering style of parenting discusses the high
amount of involvement of the parents in the lives of the children. The high levels of interference
of the parents in the lives of their children leads to several suffocating conditions that are faced
by the children themselves (Shloim et al., 2015). The children are also known to have been
burdened by the weight of the maintenance of the various instructions that have been set by the
concerned parents. These activities tend to hamper the ability of the child to justify the reasons of
the various activities that the concerned child has been involved in. The concerned parents who