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How does parenting style affect your childrens health?

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Go authoritative: Authoritative is typically the healthiest parenting style. This parenting style sets limits and provides direction while also remaining flexible and encouraing growth. Permissive, uninvolved, and authoritarian all have some down sides. These styles have been associated with poor eating, low self-esteem, over dependence, substance use and other negative behaviors.

Answered 5/2/2016

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Parenting: This is a really big question. The best match is a strong but warm parent with good boundaries. An authoritative but not authoritarian style promotes resilience.

Answered 5/14/2016

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