What's your parenting style?

When disciplining your child, extremes are rarely helpful. Avoid the following five extremes.

The authoritarian parent: Some parents command, dictate and control their children and they become totally dominated. Authoritarian parents apply severe discipline and their children live in constant fear of retribution. Such children grow up to be quarrelsome and disobedient. They become the troublemakers at school and tend to be nervous and quick-tempered. They never learn to make decisions on their own. They develop deep feelings of bitterness and resentment that may later blossom into open hostility.