Family Victory: Identify Your Parenting Style

During the 1960’s, developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind studied and described three different types of parenting styles: (1) Authoritarian, (2) Permissive, and (3) Authoritative. Later researchers identified a fourth type, the uninvolved parent. Authoritarian parents were identified as having strict rules and expectations, being very demanding, utilizing punishments with little or no explanation. They gave children […]