MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

Abstract: This paper is designed to teach parents about the importance that their parenting approach has on their children, and to give them a sense of what they should do in order to be the most successful. This will be specifically in terms of how the early stages of parenting impact the child’s eating habits. Parenting styles will be discussed, focusing on the differences between authoritative, neglectful, permissive, and authoritarian parenting styles. Authoritarian parenting is categorized as a high demandingness and low warmth and involvement, and typically kids develop in the sense that they are anxious and withdrawn, and demonstrate a fear of disappointing their parents. This parenting style will be discussed in the most detail, elaborating on the reasoning behind it being the worst form of parenting when it comes to the overall success of a child. Research supporting the negative impacts of overly restrictive parents, that seem to be characteristic of authoritarian parents, will be provided in order to support the claim being made. This research will be specifically in terms of how overly restrictive parents supports the development of unhealthy eating habits or binge eating disorder from the restricting parenting that was enforced during early childhood.

WC: 198

Reader’s profile: A new parent, unsure of how parenting works and what is the best tactic for raising successful children.

Reader’s response: Kids need to listen, and need to know who is in charge. If I don’t assert my authority from the beginning, they will obviously never respect me. Also, who do you think you are telling me what I should do regarding my own children?

Revised thesis: Parents have a tremendous role on the lifestyle and nature of their children. The parenting style used early in a child’s likely impacts the child forever. For example, the level of authority and management that parents enforce on their children is seemingly associated with binge eating disorders in children later in life. However, little conclusive evidence to date confirms this working hypothesis. Therefore, I am analyzing current research on how various parenting styles may predispose a child to eating disorder patterns, in order to propose a more detailed research study to test this hypothesis.

Voice: Third person

Citations: APA

N, this looks to be a rather formal approach to a patient guide. You may want to revise your audience scenario slightly: what about a background document for a pediatrician and PA audience? They would appreciate a guide on these types of parenting styles, so that they an be alert to these attributed of families in their practice.

I think that the eating disorder work suggests that the guide would also be helpful to those seeing parents with children in the tween to teen phase too.

Let me know a bit more about the audience you wish to address.