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Who's Better with the Kids? Mom or Dad?

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Whose Parenting Style is Better?

Who's Better with the Kids: Mom or Dad? Who's parenting style is better? Ripped from the headlines of the Wall Street Journal, this page is asking the big question: Who's better with the kids? Does Dad or Mom make the better parent?

70.1 million fathers celebrate Father's Day in 2011. Father's play a definite and different role in society and with their children. Do you ever see authoritative mothers and cuddling fathers? Of course you do, but studies do show definite pattern breaks in the overall interaction between mother and child and father and child.

What do you think about all this? Here's a chance for you to give a shout about who's the best and why.

Comfort versus Authority

Parenting styles differ but is one better?

The great debate over parenting styles still rages. Even the way a mom cradles or holds her child differs from dad. Here are just a few ways that dads handle kids differently from moms.
  1. Talk - Dads speech is different from mom's.
  2. Dad's handle minor injuries in a different way.
  3. Mom's facilitate more while Dad's encourage persistence in solving problems.
  4. Moms try reason while Dad's either direct or distract kids when the behavior is in question.

Dad's Parenting Style is a Success

The Wall Street Journal on Dad's Success in Parenting

The Secrets of Dad's Success
How Father's Teasing, Tickling, Wrestling Teach Kids to Whine Less and Be More Independent. -- (Wall Street Journal 2011)

YOUR TURN! Is it Mom or Dad?

Parenting styles tend to differ between moms and dads.

Mom's tend to be all about comfort, self-esteem, and nurturing. Dad's lean to a more authoritarian style and encourage independence.

Mom or Dad?

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I say Moms. Comfort is always better.

Waxing-Lyrical says:

Difficult to make a choice, but if pressed, I'd have to say Mom.

I say Dads. Encouraging independence is important.

Wednesday_Elf says:

I'd say BOTH, as each parent brings things of value to the child-rearing process. I'm adding this comment under 'Dads' from MY experience as a child.

 

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Who Was YOUR Better Parent?

Does personal experience with parents trumps studies?

What's your personal experience? Was dad or mom the better parent?

Who had better parenting skills in your family?

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Mom, definitely.

Waxing-Lyrical says:

They were/are both pretty good, but again, Mom knows best ;)

No way, Monkeybrain! It was Dad.

Wednesday_Elf says:

Since I had a 'poor' relationship with my mother, and a caring, stable one from my dad, I have to choose dad.

 

RELATED NEWS: FODDER FOR ARGUING MORE

Parenting in the news

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The baby's just right next to you," West said. It's a parenting style that recently caused a stir, when Time magazine featured a mom breastfeeding her three year old. Called Attachment Parenting, it advocates co-sleeping, to promote bonding.
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I consider myself to be a ?mish-mash parent? (yes, I just made that up). I don't follow a particular parenting style. I'm learning as I go and I try to do what works best for my baby and my family. Maybe I let my baby cry it out, but I also chose to ...
Never Mom Enough
Or we can take this entertaining quiz: ?What's Your Parenting Style?? It's free even if you're not a Time subscriber ? so I dove in. Q.1 Does your baby sleep in your bedroom? Well, one did, but we were in a one-room apartment.
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  • Wednesday_Elf Jun 15, 2011 @ 9:44 am | delete
    I agree with Rich. Plus, each parent brings their own set of parentlng skills to the child-parent relationships, and, especially in the case of the 'first-born' child, parents often have to learn-as-they-go. :-) We do the best we can, in most cases.
  • Waxing-Lyrical Jun 14, 2011 @ 1:11 pm | delete
    Difficult to make choices here, but I believe that relationships between fathers and daughters as opposed to mothers and sons have some significance when it come to parenting skills.
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