How can one measure Parenting Behaviors? Isn't it all subjective? Well, no. Love is not subjective, Love is specific and requires specific behaviors and actions to expose itself. There are some ways to determine how that love is being demonstrated, and how that love was demonstrated to you as a child.
Parenting Practices, Styles, and Skills, for instance, are interchangeable and work synonymously; however, they need to be differentiated to understand their purpose and use.
Parenting Styles are the Emotional Climate of the home: The Parenting Styles encompass the family environment; because parents are their child's immediate environment, their attitude, actions, and behaviors make up the home's emotional climate and affect every aspect of its inhabitants and, therefore, their child's lives.
Practices are Behaviors: These are the inherent reactions you assume at any given moment based on the parenting you received as a child; you can call it your second nature and unconscious reactive parenting practices.
Parenting Skills are Purposeful Actions: These are parenting tools you have gained after learning about your natural behaviors and have consciously decided to either redirect or implement in your day-to-day life to assume better parenting standards. If used consistently, these can become your second nature and break the cycle of bad parenting practices that you may have gained unconsciously as a child.
Now that we've clarified that, let's look at some behaviors each style produces and the effects on children that each one ensues.