What Parent Type are You?

There are three parent types, the Consultant, the Helicopter, and the Drill Sergeant. Check out the chart at the Love & Logic web site, “Three Types of Parents” to see what type you are.

The farther left in the political spectrum correlates to a Helicopter parenting type, “makes excuses for the child, but complains about mishandled responsibilities”. The farther right in the political spectrum would correlate to the Drill Sergeant parenting type, “makes lots of demands and has lots of expectations about responsibility”. A true conservative, not too far right and not too far left would be the Consultant, who “often asks self, “Who owns the problem?” helps the child explore solutions to his/her problem”.

Depending on what type of parent you are, you will send certain hidden messages to your children. They will see who you are and how you parent a lot more then they will hear your verbal message about politics. You can preach conservative values all day long, but if you are a helicopter in action, they will ACTUALLY be taught liberal values. If you are a Drill Sergeant who is usually making demands and are critical along the way, they will gravitate to the far right, embracing fascist values. It is only when you are the Consultant that they will embrace the true conservative values of personal responsibility and accountability.

How you parent is much more important than what you verbally teach your children when molding their world view. What type of parent are you? It matters.

Taken from ParentingAndPolitics.com.