The strict father model of parenting is one which values strict discipline, particularly by the father, in parenting. The strict mother model also exists.
Ideas involved in this model include:
This model of child-rearing would involve, for example, allowing children to cry themselves to sleep on the grounds that picking up a child when it should be sleeping on its own improperly fosters dependence on the parents. In his book Dare to Discipline, James Dobson advocates the strict father model. H...
