Authoritative vs Authoritarian Parenting

Alvena Wasim
ILLUMINATION
Published in
6 min readApr 24, 2023

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Are you raising your children to be autonomous, or obedient?

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How old were you when you began to eat on your own? or when your mom or dad stopped bathing you?

Every person will have a slightly different answer to those questions. My siblings and I were well into our middle school years when our parents stopped doing those chores for us. We weren’t exactly spoiled, but…

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Alvena Wasim
ILLUMINATION

Writing on issues of Power and Privilege with a nuanced perspective.