Parenting Approaches: The impact of parents in the development of a child has been an issue of great interest for developmental psychologists. This has led to the discovery of different parenting styles and the impacts they have on children. In most cases, parenting styles differ because of various reasons like parental background, family size, education level, culture, socioeconomic status, religion and personality. Notably, individual parents may have different parenting styles which normally combine to produce a unique blend in the family. Some of the most common parenting styles include the following:

Authoritative Parenting:

In this parenting style, parents usually establish rules and regulations which they expect their children to adhere to though the parents are much more democratic. However, when children fail to follow the established rules...

In this case, parents are usually non-responsive to their children and punish them when they fail to follow the established rules or guidelines.
Similarities between the two:

While the above parenting approaches are diverse in nature with divergent impact on the child's development, they have several similarities including & #8230;

Establishment of Strict Rules:

Both authoritative and authoritarian parenting approaches are similar in the fact that they are based on the establishment of strict rules or guidelines for children to obey.…