Question

Several parents weighed in on how they believe modern parenting is different from parenting styles of the past. explain some of these differences.

Answer 1

Parents play a major key role in educating a child. They influenced their children in every aspect of their lives. Parents’ impact on their children also affects their decision making. Compared to older days, children now have less respect for their parents.

Further Explanation

There are wide differences between traditional parenting and modern parenting regarding to education and freedom. Primarily, in the past the techniques used by parent to teach their children are quite different to what is obtainable in today method of parenting.

In modern parenting, parents are not strict in educating their children. They are no too rigorous in their approach towards educating their children. As an example, in modern parenting, parents choose to use psychological approach, like giving advice and giving a space to allow the children to think. In the case of traditional parenting, parents are very strict in educating their children. Simply put, we can say modern parenting is more lenient to traditional way of parenting.  

In terms of freedom, modern parents allow their children enough freedom to the point that some children involves in criminal activities. For example, such as social ill which include abortion and drug addiction are becoming rampant among this children because of the too much freedom they enjoys.

However, in traditional parenting, parents are known to always pay close attention to everything concerning their children. This means parents monitor their children closely; therefore the children that were brought with traditional parenting methods are well behaved and much disciplined.  

KEYWORDS:

• parenting method
• modern parenting
• traditional parenting

Answer 2

The differences are:
- Traditional parenting focus on telling what the children need to do rather than guiding the children to achieve success in whatever career they're interested in
- Traditional parenting only had to focus how the children communicate with peers in real life while modern parents have to concerned about how they behav in virtual world
- Modern parenting tend to be open minded in handling new societal issues compared to traditional parents