Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? In contrast, conflicted-irritable children, who tended to be fearful and moody, were likely to have authoritarian parents. These parents were rigid, power-assertive, harsh, and unresponsive to the children's needs. The children had little control over their environments and received little gratification. Baumrind suggested that these children often felt trapped and angry but also fearful of asserting themselves in a hostile environment. In childhood and adolescence, these children, especially the boys, were lacking in self-confidence, less socially competent, more unfriendly, and less likely to be leaders of their peers.Children in the impulsive-aggressive group were likely to have permissive parents. These parents had affectionate relationships with their children, but because of their excessively lax and inconsistent discipline and their encouragement of the children's free expression of impulses, they did not diminish the children's uncontrolled, noncompliant, and aggressive behavior. (Baumrind's findings are summarized graphically in Figure 7.2.) Need Assignment Help?