The first parenting style is 'new authority'.

Before you explain this parenting style you will start with an exercise, a role play. Ask three people in the front. If there aren’t any volunteers, explain that there will be more role plays so everyone will need to do it. Someone needs to be the dad, mom and child.

 

The case for the role play: 'Imagine that your child came home late after school and is rude to you, how would you react?'

 

Let them do the play and encourage them. If they are done, thank them for it and let them go back to their places, without talking about the play. Now you can do the explanation. 

For explaining this parenting style, you need to imagine it as a toolbox. New authority is the toolbox, the tools inside are the most important things a parent needs to do if they use new authority.

 

First we will open the toolbox of new authority. On the tools we take out you can read the words:

Toolbox New Authority

 

Now ask three different people to the front to play the same situation, but let them react on the new authority way. Tell them it is okay if they don’t know how to react properly, they just need to try.

 

Ask the group what they think the mom and dad did good.

Ask them which tools they used.

Ask them what the difference was with the first time. Let them discuss.