Which Is Yours?

DEMOCRACTIC PARENTS--establish clear rules and expectations and discuss them with the child. Although they acknowledge the child’s perspective, they use both reason and power to enforce their standards.

AUTHORITARIAN PARENTS—have more rigid rules and expectations and strictly enforce them. These parents expect and demand obedience from their children.

PERMISSIVE PARENTS—let the child’s preferences take priority over their ideals and rarely force the child to conform to their standards.

REJECTING PARENTS—do not pay much attention to their child’s needs and seldom have expectations regarding how the child should behave.

UNINVOLVED PARENTS—often ignore the child, letting the child’s preferences prevail as long as those preferences do not interfere with the parent’s activities.

PARENTING STYLE -- CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR

One hundred years from now
It will not matter
What kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
How much money I had in my bank account,
Nor what my clothes looked like.
But one hundred years from now
The world may be a little better
Because I was important
In the life of a child.
-Anonymous

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