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Authoritative Parents

• Show warmth through love and trust
• Explain rules, boundaries and consequences
• Set clear expectations and standards for behaviour
• Engage in discussion and negotiation with child

Permissive Parents

• Show love and affection
• Have few rules or boundaries and consequences
• Allow their child a great deal of freedom
• Have few clear expectations and standards

Authoritarian Parents

• Require obedience / Punish disobedience
• Show little warmth or affection
• Can seem hostile
• Rigid rules and consequences
• Don’t negotiate

Disengaged Parents

• Are uninvolved with their child
• Rarely correct child’s behaviour
• Are unaware of child’s needs
• Express little love or affection