The way in which children are raised create the foundation and structural support for their development from childhood, adolescence and eventually adulthood. In recent years, parenting has changed and diversified that different parenting styles can be observed in several families all over the world. More recently, two types of parenting styles have made headway in many media sources, debating whether or not these styles are effective with developing children or not. These parenting styles are called “helicopter parenting” and “free-range parenting”.
While their names may imply what these styles do, one must still know what characteristics the styles and how to identify them. Helicopter parenting is defined as parents who are overly involved and super protective of their children, they
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A pro of free range parenting is that it can help a child increase their confidence and self sufficiency. These parents allow their children to go off on their “own”, allowing them to make their own mistakes and solve and learn from those mistakes. Another pro of free range parenting is that it allows children to develop strong social skills. Parents do this by allowing their children to “free-range” their own environment, in doing so these children can learn how to act socially and interact with others, especially peers (Marusinec, 2016). However, free range parenting also comes with its cons, with several having legal actions. For example, there are several different laws that prohibit how long a parent can leave their children unattended. By leaving children unsupervised, they are more susceptible to predators, groomers, and kidnappers. Another con of free-range parenting is that it can lead to a lack of support for a child. If a parent leaves their child to learn things on their own without their influence or opinion can allow the child to make a rash decision or uninformed decision (Niz,