Paula believes that she should adopt a relaxed style with her children. She sometimes, but not always, provides them with direction when they have problems, and she does not expect a lot from them in terms of performing well in school or completing chores. Paula's parenting style can be described as

c) Permissive

Explanation:

The options for this question are missing. The options are:

a) Authoritarian

b) Authoritative

c) Permissive

d) Strict

There are 4 different styles of parenting:

Both Authoritative and authoritarian styles of parenting focus on authority, this means that they set rules and expect their children to follow the rules.

However, the authoritarian parenting is a cold style of parenting which doesn't allow for questions from the kids ("because I say so") so there is a one directional style of communication. These parents focus on punishing the wrong behavior and they believe in total control and lack of independence from their children.

Authoritative parents are nurturing so they are warmer than the Authoritarian parents, they allow children to ask why so they explain limits by reasoning with their kids, they also focus on teaching the right behaviors rather than punishing the wrong ones and when there are wrong behaviors they focus on consequences rather than on punishments.

Permissive/Indulgent parents think "kids will be kids" so they tend to be very forgiving when it comes to rules and they don't usually set consequences, but, when they do, they don't really stick to them.

Uninvolved/neglectful parents are cold and distant but also they don't expect much from their children so, basically, their children lack attention, and we can say they are neglected.

In this example Paula thinks she should adopt a relaxed style with her children, she sometimes provides direction when they have problems and don't expect much from them in terms of school or chores. We can see that she is forgiving when it comes to rules (there are not many rules to start with) and she doesn't set consequences, thus, Paula's parenting style can be described as permissive.

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