I am writing an essay on the 4 parenting styles and I need some help!!?

Question

I have to answer 4 questions in this essay, which are:
1.) How would you characterize the style of parenting under which you were raised?

2.)What specific behavioral effects of your upbringing can you identify in yourself?

3.)How about your parents' upbringing? How would they, or you, characterize the style of parenting used by their parents.

4.)Now think carefully about who you might have been had you been raised by other parents. Prepare 3 brief descriptions of how you might have developed, one for each of the remaining styles of parenting.


OKAY... I know most of them.. well actually all, are answers you guys would ahve no idea about because you do not know me or my parents.. but How in the hell am I supposed to write a 1000 word essay on those simple questions. I don't even know how to elaborate on some of them without getting completely off topic!!! HEEELPPP!

Answer 1

Kids will grow up in spite of what you try to teach them through parenting.

The only thing that is important is teaching them right from wrong, and that they do not rule the roost.

Do not buy them video games and don't let them near your computer.

Answer 2

Use the nature vs. nurture angle. Genes play very little in who you become. There is so many great scientific studies that support that your environment growing up and the first 24 months of your life, develop who you become. If you receive empathic care from your mother or caregiver, you stand a really good chance of developing properly. If your care is abusive or your caregiver suffers from depression and they are basically indifferent to their baby,this causes an astronomical amount of future problems when you reach adolescence and eventually adulthood. If you could experiment and take a child that was born of very loving and stable household and give him to caregivers that were abusive and gave unempathic care. Scientific evidence shows that even if this child born with "good genes", it makes zero difference. They have so many case studies about babies taken early enough from abusive environments and put in orphanages that turned out OK. I'm not going to write your paper for you, but there is an outstanding book on the subject by author Oliver James called How to Survive Family Life-"They F*** You Up"