There are four types of parenting style including permissive, authoritative, authoritarian, and uninvolved.
Permissive parenting style: The permissive parenting style is described as parents having high responsiveness and low demand. These parents are generally loving and provide the child with very few rules and guidelines as well as they do not anticipate a mature behavior from the child and tend to be quiet friendly rather than being a parental entity.
This parenting style can be considered as bad and unhealthy for the development of the child because parents usually ignore unwanted behavior and deal with the child with love and comfort.
Joe's new attitudes wherein he expected his mother to do his laundry and pick up after him when he came home for the summer is most likely a function of conformity.
Conformity is a kind of social influence where a person changes their behavior or belief in order to fit in a group. The change is a response to imaginary or real group pressure.
Aaron uses the emotional display in his mother's face to judge the situation and went to the mother to pick him since she was all smiling. Aaron is demonstrating social referencing. Infant start using this from when they are about 8 months old.
