Parenting Styles

Which of the following is NOT a parenting style?

• Authoritarian

• Permissive

• Democratic

• Friendly

Parents who have an authoritarian parenting style often:

• are highly demanding

• have very high behavioral expectations

• value obedience

• all of the above

Anthony's parents have low behavior expectations, which parenting style do they have?

• permissive

• authoritarian

• democratic

• uninvolved

Children of Authoritarian parents may not feel unconditional love.

• True

• False

Democratic style parents do not provide rationale for behavioral expectations.

• True

• False

This parenting style uses few limits and little guidance or consistent discipline.

• authoritarian

• uninvolved

• democratic

• permissive

A parent's behavioral expectations of a child should be high and unrealistic.

• True

• False

All children need and what to know what their limits are.

• True

• False

authoritative parents

• have rules and guidelines; take time to explain consequences

• want to be friends with their children, do not enforce rules

• have high expectations and unreasonable rules

• ignore children

Permissive parents

• do not enforce rules, want to be their child's friend

• enforce strict, sometimes unreasonable rules

• have fair consequences for breaking rules

• do not have rules, pays little to no attention to the child