Your parenting style can affect everything from your child's self-esteem to their academic success. It's important to ensure your parenting style supports healthy growth and development because the way you interact with your child—and how you discipline them— will influence them for the rest of their life. 
Researchers have identified four main types of parenting styles that take a unique approach to raising children:1

• Authoritarian
• Authoritative
• Permissive
• Uninvolved