What kind of parent are you? Parenting personality . Part 2.

What kind of parents are you ? Part 2.

As we share in the last post, there are two basic ways of PARENTING style –one that reflects how you deal with AUTHORITY style, and one that reflects your overall PARENTING personality.

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And today we want to share about 3 types of PARENTING PERSONALITY that might be help to deepen your PARENTING skills.

1.  THE HYPER PARENT

Characteristics: always on the go,go,go-moving, scheduling and doing everything for child , so that he never learns to do by himself.

The hyper parent views parenting as an extreme sport. Everything is controlled and everything is the best. Every minute is scheduled with not a minute spared for actually thinking or feeling or relaxing. Gotta get your child involved in everything. Do absolutely every single task by the book with no wiggle room at all. “Perfect” parenting, if you will.

2.  THE ABSENT PARENT

Characteristics: solitary  creature who camouflage self into the background or is too busy with own life to pay attention to the child.
 

Here the parent is as uninvolved as  possible: plop the kid in  front of TV so that the parent can take of his or her own life. 

There’s little or no social and emotional interaction. The thought process is clear: Let the kid fend for himself and learn the hard knocks as they come “My parents didn’t do one things with me when I was kid , and look at me, I just turned out just fine.”

3.    THE-GO-WITH THE FLOW  (GWTP)

Characteristics: adaptable, able to make decisions based on the specific situation at hand.

 Life is unpredictable, kids are unpredictable. So the GWTP remains flexible and adapts to any all kinds of parenting situation and struggle. Life shouldn’t be boot camp for a child, nor should it be 24 hours playground either.  It should be a little bit of both.

Providing free time is key to cultivating imagination and creativity. Unstructured  play –at the beach, on the playground-also help teach kids social skill as well as how to deal with unexpected.

For some , finding the middle ground of parenting-the one which you’re strong yet flexible-will come natural. But its not always easy, and, at times, many have a hard time finding  the middle.

The fact is that it actually takes a reasonable amount of work, discipline and focus to live in that middle ground day after day , parenting challenge after parenting challenge.

A GWTP should not be confused with a Marshmallow mommy or Pudding pop, there is the different with laissez –faire and loving limits.

To produce the healthiest environment for your child’s development, we recommend that you aim to be GWTP with Flex-a-Family style .