Parenting
Parenting styles analyze the type of communication between parents and child in terms of two factors, control and affection. One important thing about parenting is that parents can make a lot of changes in their child’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior by applying their own parenting styles. Researchers, in an attempt to find common features of parents’ nurturing, have identified four parenting styles. However, keep in mind that every parent has a specific relationship with his child. Parenting styles refer to a combination of strategies that are used by parents.
Parenting styles:
- Authoritative: high control and low affection
- Authoritarian: low control and high affection
- Low control and low affection
- Permissive: high control and high affection
Identity crisis
In an identity crisis, a teen seeks actively to answer such an important question: “who am I?” Self-consciousness begins at this age and his self-control and self-observation skills will maximize. They may experience different “selves” and ultimately conclude who they are and what characteristics they have.
One of the fundamental characteristics of an identity crisis is so many changes will be made in teen’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior. He may support one idea and after a short time, he may support the opposite idea. In the teenage period, such behaviors are normal. In fact, teen’s flexibility and instability make teen solve identity crisis. In other words, he is hanging between a lack of identity and identity acquisition. He spends much mental energy to achieve his desirable identity, so it is one of the most critical topics in this period.
