Impacts and Examples of Permissive Parenting Style

Are you aware of indulgent parenting? You might be extremely affectionate towards your child and find it difficult to say ‘no ‘to her demands. If you allow your child to sleep late at night, watch TV or phone as long as she wishes or to eat junk food unbound then you are a permissive parent. 

Permissive parenting might be a result of over affection or laid back parenting or negligence. Lazy parents might take up this method of parenting where they grant excessive freedom to the child to do whatever she pleases to do.  The following blog would dive deeper into the signs of indulgent parenting and its impact on the child. 

Characteristics of Indulgent Parenting

It is important to identify the traits of permissive parenting in order to regulate your own approach towards parenting. Permissive parenting implies hands-off parenting where parents completely withdraw their hold on children's life.  They lack proper structure of discipline. This has serious implications on child and child psychologists and pediatricians is completely against permissive parenting. Let’s discuss the traits:

Parents’ Acts like Friends

In this approach parents are most permissive where they not only allow children to do certain things but also overlook their flaws and do not hold them responsible for their actions. Later on he will fail to accept the fact that other people would not indulge their negativities. 

Overlooking Children’s Conflicts

Parents often do not get involved in children’s conflict and misbehaviors. As a result, the child feels entitled to do whatever she or he wants. 

Allowing Excessive Screen Time and Junk Food

 Parents often allow children to watch TV for a long time or treat them with excessive junk food for rewards. 

Indulging to Make Things Done

Parents often use the tactic of bribing children to make them do certain things like homework. This includes gifting chocolates, video games, gadgets and so on. 

Parents Trying to be Their Child’s Favorite

Many parents want to impress their kids and to be adored by them. This makes them give in to all their children’s demands and to overlook their flaws. 

Impacts of Indulgent Parenting

Permissive parenting has serious negative impacts on a child's cognitive, psychological and personality development. Let’s explore the impacts in the following section. 

Children Becomes Adamant

Since a child is used to having all his demands met by his parents, it becomes problematic to come to terms with the opposite. The kid might start throwing tantrums to get what he wants. This tendency might even drive the kid to take help of unjust means to fulfill his desires.

Child Becomes a Bully

Children used to indulgent parenting turn out as bullies. This happens because they feel entitled to not follow any rules and are not afraid to break rules and decorum of the school. 

Poor Academic Performance

Children of permissive parenting are so used to their own comfort zones that they do not take academics seriously. They also lack the positive drive towards career development when they grow up. You can follow books to learn about effective teaching strategies and techniques for kids to help your children with academics.  

Lack Decision Making Ability

Pampered children are not used to taking their own responsibilities in serious matters like academics or checking their behavior. As a result, they suffer from indecision while they confront serious life dilemmas or normal work pressures. 

Poor Time Management Skills

These kids fail to work or complete their assignments on time as they do not have practice following a schedule from their childhood. This also contributes to their poor academic performance. 

Concluding Thoughts 

Permissive parenting must be balanced with strict parenting. Parents must provide regulated agencies to their children while having them follow certain essential rules like maintaining a fixed schedule, following fixed leisure time and so on. This enables children to become a self-reliant, resilient and responsible human being.