The authoritarian style of parenting is the final of the four styles and is not very conducive to a successful and happy child. These parents have reasonable standards of behavior for their children and discipline their children in a way that allows them to learn from their mistakes this balance makes them the most beneficial parent. Drastically different from this style, the authoritative parent gives adequate amount of assistance to the child and exerts the proper amount of control over the child. A second style is the uninvolved parent who does not support or discipline the child, leaving the child to fend for him or herself by neglecting to give direction or compassion to the child. One style is the indulgent parent who readily offers support and warmth to the child, but does not demand much of the child by being very lenient on rules and behavioral expectations. Therefore, the father’s parenting style, method of control, expectations, and practice of conditional love influence the behavior of the child – for worse – as evidenced by the relationship between King Henry and his son, Hal, in Shakespeare’s play, 1 Henry IV.Īccording to Nancy Darling, PhD, MS, in her article, “Parenting Style and Its Correlates,” a variety of parenting styles exist that describes the normal differences in raising children, in terms of how the amount of support and warmth the parent provides the child with and the manner in which the parent controls the child. This controlling nature and parenting style can quickly lead to delinquent behavior in the child, resulting in less love for the child. Typically, the father is the disciplinarian because he has an authoritarian style of parenting and exerts control over the child through loving the child based on his or her behavior: more love goes to the well-behaved child. A father is now expected to play an instrumental role in raising his child, and the manner in which he does so affects how the child behaves. The relationship between a father and his child is more important than one is led to believe, for the father does not exist solely for the purpose of providing for his family. What is that word ‘honour’? Air.The Problems of Authoritarian Parenting in 1 Henry IV The Problems of Authoritarian Parenting in 1 Henry IV Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No.
They’ll fill a pit as well as better.Ĭan Honour set to a leg? No. While you live, tell truth and shame the devil!įood for powder, food for powder. That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend Vice, that grey Iniquity, that father Ruffian, that Vanity in years?įalstaff: Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.
It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,Īnd pluck up drowned honour by the locks.
To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Who doth permit the base contagious cloudsīy heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,
Let us be Diana’s foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon benches in the afternoon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know. Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed Over whose acres walked those blessed feet