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Quiz: What's Your Parenting Style?

By Karen van Kampen

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New York City-based psychologist Dr. Bonnie Maslin divides parents into four main parenting styles. In her book, Picking Your Battles: Winning Strategies for Raising Well-Behaved Kids, Maslin explains that many parents win by losing.

Indulging or controlling a child will silence them, but in the long run both the child and the parent lose. Parents need to learn how to guide rather than control or indulge their children to become a “middle ground” parent. From Boot Camp to Anything Goes, take our 10-question quiz to determine your parenting style.

You and your five-year-old daughter are having a play date at a friend's house. When asked what she wants for lunch, your shy daughter lowers her head and refuses to answer. What do you do?

Ask your daughter to answer the question. She says nothing. When you ask again, she remains silent. Exasperated, you tell the host what your daughter likes to eat, allowing her to remain silent.

Quiz: What's Your Parenting Style?

Question 1 of 10

You and your five-year-old daughter are having a play date at a friend's house. When asked what she wants for lunch, your shy daughter lowers her head and refuses to answer. What do you do?

Ask your daughter to answer the question. She says nothing. When you ask again, she remains silent. Exasperated, you tell the host what your daughter likes to eat, allowing her to remain silent.

Speak for your daughter, telling the host what she likes and explaining that she is just shy.

Squatting down to your daughter's eye level, you talk her through the situation, helping her answer the question on her own.

Command her to answer the question immediately, or she is going home.