Parenting Styles

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
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