Parenting Styles Overview

Explore different parenting approaches and philosophies to understand what resonates with your family. Our overview examines various styles and their underlying principles.

Parenting Styles and Diana Baumrind

Since at least the 1920's, leading experts in health and psychology have had a huge fascination and interest in the way that children behave, and the way tha...

Parenting Styles: An Introduction

Being a parent and bringing up children is not an easy task, in fact in many ways it is the hardest job you may ever have because there is such a wealth of c...

Take Our Parental Health Quiz

Looking after your health is an important part of being a parent. We spend so much of our time worrying about our children and concentrating on their health...

The Origins of Parenting Styles

Parenting is not something that has hard and fast rules, and over the course of your child’s life you may well find that the way you raise your family chan...

What is Authoritarian Parenting?

The majority of parents adopt a number of parenting styles and methods, preferring to look at their child as an individual rather than following a definite s...

What is Assertive-Democratic Parenting?

Assertive Democratic Parenting Style is also often known and referred to by experts as the Authoritative parenting style. Assertive Democratic parenting prod...

What is Permissive Parenting?

Permissive parenting is at the other end of the spectrum from the authoritarian parenting style, and basically allows children to grow up in an environment o...

What's Your Parenting Style?

There really isn’t a right or wrong way to bring up children, and although there are thousands of books, websites, magazines and even DVDs on the subject o...