| Copyright (c) 2010 Ewen Chia | | | | responds to them. There are techniques that childcare |
| When it comes to parenting styles, we often find two | | | | expects recommend over others. |
| types of parents - the encourager and the intimidator. | | | | Encouragement should not be mixed up with |
| An encouraging parent focuses on using positive | | | | pampering though. Pampering means regularly doing |
| reinforcements to get their kids to work towards a | | | | something the child can do for themselves such as |
| certain target. An intimidating parent, on the other hand, | | | | fixing breakfast, preparing lunch, or even waking them |
| uses punishments as part of his parenting style to get | | | | up. Pampering makes a child lazy and teaches them to |
| their kids to conform to a particular action. | | | | take certain things for granted. Don't make your child |
| To begin with, all 3 methods works in getting your child | | | | overly dependent on you or other people to get things |
| to conform to your expectations. Which one works | | | | done for him. |
| the best however, depends on how your child | | | | |