Motherhood: Choosing The Best Parenting Style: Managerial Vs Consulting 3

Hello Great Mothers!

The parenting styles we adopt when nurturing our children are important. This is so because it has a great impact on their mental health and overall well-being. The different parenting styles we adopt, either knowingly or unknowingly, have different effects on our children’s emotional development, self-esteem, and resilience.

The way we nurture and discipline our children influences their ability to deal with stress, build healthy relationships, and cultivate a positive self-image in life.

The knowledge of the different consequences of parenting styles we adopt can help us create an atmosphere that promotes our children’s emotional and psychological development, resulting in a more balanced and meaningful life.

In our previous article, we discussed the managerial parenting style. It was discussed that the managerial style entails using a controlled, organized, and goal-oriented approach to nurture and discipline their children.

Every parenting style has its advantages and disadvantages.

Children nurtured by mothers who adopt the managerial parenting style grow up to be:

● Disciplined, and one with self-control
● Goal oriented, and always strive for perfection
● Equipped with essential life skills including time management, responsibility, and accountability.

Embracing the managerial parenting style to nurture our children can impact them in the following ways:

● The Managerial style of parenting involves excessive control and surveillance, and this can suppress children’s creativity and freedom. Thereby, resulting in resistance and rebellion.
● Due to the emphasis on achievement, we can unconsciously put unnecessary pressure on our children, and this may affect their self-esteem and cause harm to their mental health.
● The strict nature of this parenting style may limit the spontaneity and adaptability of the children thereby limiting their growth and resilience.

Looking at the above negative effects of managerial parenting on our children’s growth, mothers who adopt this are advised to balance it, by being flexible and showing empathy.

As a mother, do you prefer this parenting style? Kindly share your experience.