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Traditional Tug of War ‘Control’ Methods:
Child controls Adult controls
Permissive Authoritative & Authoritarian
Approach approaches
▪ Child’s ‘wins’ control ▪ Adult ‘wins’ control
▪ Childs own needs are met. ▪ Adult needs met
▪ Adult sacrifices their own needs. ▪ Child’s needs less important
The problems with control and compliance methods:
1. They do not work all of the time or with all children
2. They only work whilst the adult is in control and monitoring the child – they do not teach independence
3. They work well in the short-term but do not get to the root of the problem.
4. They do not teach the long-term pro-social and pro-learning skills needed to do well
Based on the work of Diana Baumrind
