What Parents Need to Know About Authoritative Parenting
by Christian Dashiell, fatherly.com It sounds regressive. It may be the single most effective parenting style. Parenting styles are less about how you identify and more about how parents actually interact with and influence the development and outcomes of their kids. Although some parents associate themselves with media propagated terms like free range and tiger parenting, in reality, there are only four parenting styles backed by psychology: Authoritarian parenting, authoritative parenting, permissive parenting, and neglectful parenting. And of those four, only authoritative parenting appears to result in consistently good outcomes for kids. So what is it? What is Authoritative Parenting? One of the parenting styles commonly used in psychology today, authoritative parenting is based on work from the 1960s by...