In the 1960s, University of California psychologist Diana Baumrind classified parenting styles into three styles: tyranny, tolerance, and authoritarianism. In 2009, author Carl Honoré dedicated a fourth parenting style, “Free Parenting,” to help parents “raise and educate children in a fast-paced world.” Free education can be defined as parents abandoning the idea that children should be given all ready and easy opportunities, and encouraging them to “have meaningful experiences, and give them time.
And energy to deal with it”