Modern pedagogical science has revealed that the parental style of upbringing plays a major role in the development of a child's personality and has a great influence on his entire subsequent life.
There are five styles of parenting:
1. Authoritarian - this style is characterized by the strictest discipline, everything is decided by the parents, and the child must do as it is said. There is no place for warmth here. There is a parent-child communication to the detriment of a child-parent communication. Much is expected from a child.
2. Permissive - in this style there is a lot of warm communication between parents and children, a little discipline. There is a communication "child-parent" to the detriment of communication "parent-child". Not too much is expected of a child.
3. Caregiver - surrounding the child with constant care. The solution to all the problems he has. Constant monitoring of how he behaves. Anxiety so that nothing happens to him
4. Authoritative - in this style there is medium discipline along with warm relationships. A lot of communication and legitimate hopes for the future of the child. Firmness and consistency and of course fairness. An atmosphere of love and emotional support. Independence and personal responsibility are encouraged in relation to age.
Consider the authoritarian parenting style using the example of the German Müller family, who lived in the early twentieth century. Their son Hans Müller was born in 1917. From childhood he was brought up in the strictest discipline. Parents practically did not demonstrate their love for their son, it seemed that they were alienated from him. And this despite the fact that he was the only and long-awaited child. They pinned great hopes on him. In the family, orders were not to be discussed, and failure to comply with the will of the parents was severely punished, corporal punishment was used within reason.
Naturally, Hans developed a reflex of constant obedience, in order to avoid punishment, he became lack of initiative. This led to the fact that the child began to show a tendency to violence, he had a lot of conflicts at school, a manifestation of hostility. He was unsure of himself, his self-esteem dropped.
In 1935, at the insistence of his parents, he joined the National Socialist Party and the Wehrmacht. By the age of 25, he was admitted to a special SS unit "Dead Head", which guards concentration camps. All the atrocities of Hans Müller can be read in the German archives, which fell into the hands of the Soviet army that liberated Auschwitz. This is what led to the fact that in the past many families in Germany raised their children in an authoritarian style that required strict obedience. They kind of created "fertile ground" for Hitler to come to power.
