If we are able to accurately indicate if parenting styles foster appropriate development of
social emotional skills, parents and children will be able to work together to increase the mental
health state of our young children. Therefore, parents of preschool aged children who attend the
Family Resource Center for Eau Claire County were asked to complete two surveys. The first,
“What‟s Your Parenting Style” to determine which of the three parenting styles, authoritarian,
authoritative or permissive, best represented their parenting strategies. Next, parents were asked
to complete the “Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social Emotional Development” (ASQ-SE) to
determine if their child‟s social emotional development was age appropriate, or was defined as
delayed.