Assignment 3.1: Parenting Styles

Step 1: Review the four parenting styles.
Step 2: In one page paper, explain the four types of parenting styles.

• Explain how parenting styles can impact the social, cognitive, and emotional development in Early Childhood
• Explain why understanding each of parenting styles can be helpful in a clinical setting.
• Discuss which parenting style may be identified in a “mandatory reporting” case.
• Include whether or not you think the most common parenting style has changed over the last decade.  Explain your answer.

Provide 3-5 reference to support your stance.