What’s Your ‘Parenting’ Type?

Last updated on: September 24, 2018 at 12:10 pm by Sarah Hamaker

What’s Your ‘Parenting’ Type? 2018-09-20T22:58:31+00:00 Sarah Hamaker

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A Growling Success
The Tiger parent puts excellence in academics above everything else. Tiger parents pick their children’s extracurricular activities with an eye to the future, not because a child enjoys the activity. Free time is seen as being lazy. “Parents are authoritarian and have high expectations” and exhibit extreme “tough-love parenting.”

The antidote to being a tiger parent is to recognize that a child should be the one driving academic studying and extracurricular activities, not the parent. If that means your child eschews playing a sport or only turns in minimal work to pass high school chemistry, that’s okay. Repeat after me, tiger parents: It’s your child’s life, not yours.

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Emotionally Connected
The Elephant parent is the exact opposite of the Tiger parent. “These parents value emotional security and connection.” While that can be good for a child, elephant parents take it too far with co-sleeping until the child is well into school, for example.

The antidote to being an elephant parent is to recognize your child’s mental well-being isn’t solely your responsibility. Your child is separate from you, and learning to deal with emotions is part of growing up.

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