Permissiveness is one of the extreme styles or types of education, where the child is consciously given absolute freedom. Permissiveness differs from free education, where the freedom granted to the child is regulated and supplemented by concern for the directed development of the child. See →
The main features of permissiveness as a style of education:
- Everything is possible for a child, as long as we, adults, have enough nerves and strength. The adult forbids himself to limit the choice of the child, except in situations fraught with serious harm to the child or other people.
- An adult forbids any coercion in relation to the child’s personality.
- The only task of an adult is to interest the child.
- An adult proceeds from the ideas of humanism, which, in the view of an adult, in themselves guarantee the well-being of a child.
- Position from below — the interests of the child are higher than the interest of the adult.