Authoritarian Parenting
Authoritarian parents have high expectations for their children, but they tend to be strict and controlling. They focus on obedience and often use punishment or harsh discipline when rules are broken.
Permissive Parenting
Permissive parents are warm and responsive, but they tend to have very few rules or expectations. They often avoid confrontation or discipline and allow their children to make their own decisions.
Authoritative Parenting
Authoritative parents have high expectations for their children, they are also warm, responsive, and supportive. They establish clear rules and expectations, but they are also willing to listen to their children's opinions and ideas.
Uninvolved Parenting
Uninvolved parents put more emphasis on children being able to raise themselves. They devote much less time or energy to their children's day-to-day activities. Uninvolved parents may be neglectful but it's not always intentional. As well as parents with emotional issues or mental health problems, exceptionally driven and highly-motivated parents can also fall into this category.
Where do you think you fall with your parenting style?
At Jungle Academy our approach to our student's education is authoritative. We set clear boundaries, but do not overwhelm our students with a barrage of petty rules. We have ample time built into every day to discuss and work through issues that arise allowing important issues to be met head-on and in a timely manner without the need for altering the daily schedule and arranging extra meetings.
Occasionally we can be authoritarian, especially when we're doing activities that are high-tempo or happening outside of the traditional classroom space. Our no relationship policy on school grounds is also a reflection of this stance.
We are certainly not permissive. We provide clarity and routine with a fixed timetable of classes published each cycle, with regular or 'core' classes in Math, Spanish, English, Biology, and Chemistry. We do very little, if any, child-led learning and even during break times, when students are free to interact in less formal ways, we are constantly guiding them in what is appropriate and what is not in terms of behavior and social interaction. We are happy for students to make small mistakes but this all takes place in an environment of strong, hard boundaries.
Allowing students to explore boundaries and practice making good choices is core to our philosophy.
Allowing students to explore boundaries and practice making good choices is core to our philosophy and not 'permissive' parenting. Instead, students exploration of personal choices is supplemented by frequent group and individual conversations with adult guides helping students understand more fully why a boundary is set, and the consequences for themselves, others and the environment.
Experiencing the consequence of making a poor choice first hand allows children to more fully integrate the experience of feeling personal accountability and responsibility.
With gentle yet clear guidance, they can learn to consider alternative options, so that in future, they are able to make better choices of their own accord.
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