Punishments,discipline for children

You're exactly right. When a parent administers punishment too often or unfairly, that is called the authoritarian parenting style and is just as bad as the uninvolved parenting style. An authoritarian parenting style results in low self-esteem, subdued or aggressive behavior, or out of control behavior. These results were found among kids in high school who were raised with the authoritarian parenting style throughout their childhood. Authoritative parenting, on the other hand, is the best method of parenting because it exerts a high amount of control over the child, but also results in a high level of acceptance by the child. Authoritative parenting invovles setting limits for children but also responding to a child's individual needs. Kids raised with the authoritative parenting style have higher self-esteem, are self-confident, are more independent, are achievement-oriented in school, and are more likely to comply with parents' requests in comparison with all the other parenting styles. The other two parenting styles are permissive parenting, which involves a high level of nurturing but low levels of maturity demands, control, and communication, and the uninvolved parenting, which has low levels of nurturance, maturity demands, control, and communication. Permissive parenting tends to produce children that do slightly worse in school during adolescence in comparison with other children and that are likely to be more aggressive (esp. if parents are permissive about aggressiveness) and somewhat immature in their behavior with peers and in school. They are also less likely to take responsibility and are less independent. The uninvolved parenting style produces children who tend to have problems in their social relationships for many years, and adolescents raised by the uninvolved parenting style tend to be more impulsive and antisocial, less competent with peers, and less achievement-oriented in school. I know I gave a lot of info, but I find it interesting.