Parenting Styles

Parents should provide direction but also listen and discuss their kids' concerns.

Kids should make most of their own decisions without parental direction.

Parents should provide direction and guidance in rational and objective ways.

Children should be told exactly what to do and how to do it.

Kids can make up their own minds and do what they want to do.

Kids need to learn early who the boss is in the family.

Children should get their way as often as their parents do.

Children should follow their parents' orders without asking questions.

Children should be punished every time they disobey.