A Brief Note On Culture And Parenting Essay - 1698 Words

Michael Ibiwoye. CULTURE AND PARENTING â€Å"Mommy I won’t do it again† I stuttered loudly. I really didn’t know how serious I was about that promise, but my body definitely knew it didn’t want to receive any form of whipping again. That was the first time of getting whipped by my mom, and I was only four years old. I remember wishing death upon myself, with every stroke of my father’s belt on my body. What was I thinking when I went to the bathroom on the front porch of the house? I was probably thinking I could get away with it since I was just four, or I was not thinking at all. An abused child includes any child whose parent or immediate family member or person responsible for the child s welfare/individual residing in the same†¦show more content†¦Some parents are more tolerable about some things while some, like my parents will smack you without hesitation. As young adults we can look back at our childhood and laugh about the smacks and punishments we got but unfortunately, some children out there are treated worse than we were treated. Some parents are ignorant to the fact that the parenting styles in which the child was nurtured affects the child’s communication and development. As proposed by Baumrind (1971) the main types of parenting styles are authoritarian, authoritative and permissive, while Arder’s article titled â€Å"Parenting Styles and Discipline Methods among Different Ethnic Groups† and Fontes and Lisa Aronson’s article, titled â€Å"Child discipline and Physical abuse in Immigrant Latino Families: Reducing Violence and Misunderstanding† suggests that there are other factors like culture that can also affect parenting styles. Learning about the different parenting styles shows how culture is equally important in the way children are nurtured. Parenting styles vary between families and c ultures; each having different ways of raising their children. Although parenting differs amongst cultures but the in western culture, the variations of parenting styles fall solely on the styles proposed by Baumrind. The authoritarian style, commonly found amongst the Asian and African American culture, is one