52. Free-Range or Dictatorship: Parenting Styles

At some point as a parent, you might start to think about your parenting style. How do you approach raising your kids - teaching them, disciplining them, playing with them, and praying with them?

I start the discussion this week by covering the most popular psychology and parenting research done which explores parenting only as how you fall on two primary variables: Strictness and Responsiveness. 

The psychology literature says that you can be generally high or low on these two variables and based on your tendencies you fall generally into a category of  Uninvolved, Permissive, Authoritarian, or Authoritative  Parenting.

Dr. Diana Baumrind, who did the early work of describing these parenting tendencies did establish that one of these categories has the best outcomes for kids. Which one?

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