Parenting Style in Entrepreneurship Building on Children

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the form of parenting styles, the factors that affect parenting styles, and the impact of parenting styles on children’s entrepreneurship building. The design of this study is qualitative research which focuses on case study approach. The key informants in this study are business owners of shell bag craft, they are Anas and Nurul, Ismarofi and Ririn, Marlean and Emi. The data were collected by conducting semistructured interviews. Based on the interviews, the findings showed that: (1) parenting styles applied by Anas and Marlean lead to an authoritative form of parenting that gives freedom to their children under their supervision, meanwhile, Ismarofi applied a collaboration parenting style which leads to both authoritative and permissive parenting as shown in different impression to the activities their children do; (2) factors that affect parenting styles on children’s entrepreneurship building is the limitation of children to learn the real business as the children are still in the school age who have to study at school; (3) the impact of parenting style brings benefits on the formation of children positive characteristics, such as independent, confident, outgoing, and visioner - having a future orientation.