Baumrind’s Caregiving Styles

 Authoritative- high demandeingness/ high responsiveness.

 Authoritarian - high demandingness/ low responsiveness

 Permissive - Low demandingness/ high responsiveness

 Negligent - low demandingness/ low responsiveness

Caregiving Style Description – The caregivers style has the Effect on the Preschool
following descriptions Children
Authoritative - (high  Expect behavior appropriate to the  Makes the preschool
demandingness/ high age of the child child secure and safe
responsiveness)  Maintain reasonable and fair limits  Teaches the child to
 Closely monitor the activities of the take responsibility for his
child action
 Warm and nurturing  Develops self-control
 Have realistic expectations of the  Develops a realistic
child view of oneself
 Communicate messages in a kind,
 Builds the child’s
firm and consistent manner 
capacity for empathy.
 Discipline approach focuses on
teaching than punishing

Authoritarian – high  Set subjective or unreasonable limits  Lead to aggressive

demandingness/ low  Communicate messages behavior of the child
responsiveness  Strive to have strong psychological  Brings about poor self-
control, punishment, sarcasm, control
withdrawal of love, threats  Results in poor self-
 Not able to teach children a better way esteem 
to behave
Permissive – low  Permit the preschool children to regulate  Has difficulty controlling
demandingness/ high their own behavior and make their own impulses
responsiveness decisions even if the children are not yet  Tends to be dependent
ready to do so  Tends to be demanding of
 Do not set rules or very few if any their caregivers
 Do not demand good behavior or ask  Tends not to persist or
accomplishment easily gives up on a task.
 May confidence in their ability to
influence the children
 May be disorganized or ineffective in
managing the family, the class
Negligent – low  Shows undemanding, indifferent and If the child experience
demandingness/ low rejecting action towards the child this early in life, he
responsiveness  Has little commitment to their role as may develop:
caregiver  Attachment problems
 May be depressed or overburdened by  Delayed cognitive
many concerns like poverty, marital development
problems or absence of support from  Poor social and
others emotional skills
 Delinquent behavior
later in adolescence