“There is no way that parents can avoid having a determining effect on the personality, character and skills of their children” (Baumrind, 1978). It is surprising that children raised in completely different environments can continue to possess similar characteristics later in life. But why is this so? The functions performed by parents greatly influence how children develop. An enormous amount of research has been conducted on the effects of parenting styles since 1966, when Diana Baumrind first published her three prototype parenting styles, but many parents fail to understand the power they possess to shape lives. future of their children and the need for a responsible strategy regarding the education of their children. Baumrind (1967) observed more than one hundred preschool children and their parents and noted that parents responding to the child's needs in a supportive manner would increase the child's performance. There are two central elements regarding parenting style: parental responsiveness and parental demand (Maccoby & Martin, 1983). From these building blocks, Baumrind identified three prototypes: authoritarian, authoritarian, and permissive. In 1983, Maccoby and Martin's work would be published and reconceptualized Baumrind's work by adding a fourth category; negligent. All four of these parenting style prototypes are a combination of these basic elements. Authoritative parenting combines responsiveness with the demand for what many people believe to be the best approach to parenting (Timpano, Keough, Mahaffey, Schmidt, & Abramowitz, 2010). The authoritarian style blends reactivity with the need to form a totalitarian vision of children's education. The inverse of the... center of the card... ...between the discs and the tokens. Behavior Research and Therapy, 23,197-201Strage, A., & Brandt, T.S. (1999). Authoritative parenting and college student academic adjustment and success. Journal of Educational Psychology, 91, 146-156. Timpano, K. R., Keough, M. E., Mahaffey, B., Schmidt, N. B., & Abramowitz, J. (2010). Parenting and obsessive compulsive symptoms: Implications of authoritarian parenting. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 24(3), 151-164. Weiss, L. H., & Schwarz, J. C. (1996). The relationship between parental types and personality, academic performance, adjustment and substance use of older adolescents. Child Development, 67(5), 2101-2114. Wolfradt, U., Hempel, S., Miles, J. N. V. (2003). Perceived parenting styles, depersonalization, anxiety, and coping behaviors in adolescents. Personality and individual differences, 34,521-532.