Abstract:

Background:
Our study is based on a set of broad goals to identify the parents’ profile of nowadays. Many speakers at conferences and educational events, as well as national at exams for teacher training, specialists, teachers and university professors agree on that involvement and the “unusual” way that today parents manage establishing meaningful relationships with children, as well as how they play their role as parents in educational theater.

Objective:
In this respect, the present study aims to identify a part of the today parent's profile in its interaction with the child and the eventual family particularities. Parents' styles topics are so present; a Google search enquiry displays a result of 368,000,000 samples regarding parent style profile, as well as discussing the school admission and management for children's accounts at schools (https://cssprofile.collegeboard.org/info-divorced-separated-parents); there are specific rules for divorced parents (Livingston, 2018). Also, there are references to the profile of parents with children with ADHD (Dadashzadeh et all, 2014); there are countless blogs (https://www.todaysparent.com/family/different-parenting-styles/, https://www.totuldespremame.ro, https://www.celmaibuntata.ro, http://taticool.eu, etc.) and vlogs on how to be a (good/the best) parent. All those may give us a glimpse of the nowadays complexity of parenting and family relationships, as well as pre and post marital relationships between parents, stepparents and children.

Methodology:
Our research is an exploratory one and is based on almost 2100 responses of parents, mothers mostly, who completed an online parental questionnaire built on the Hoeveetal understanding (Hoeveetal, 2009) and the theoretical models proposed by Emily Hughes (Hughues, 2013), Phillip (Phillip, 1996) and Waddell (Waddell, 2012); the instrument has been calibrated on the Romanian population and culture. There are 18 items, structured on 4 parental types according to the above models.

Results:
The findings and relations we have identified may provide us with a complementary perspective to ideas and opinions already empirically conveyed and a wiser (we hope) way to address parenting and (their) education (as well). For sure, the answers we offer are just doors which, once opened, shall reveal even more complex questions and perspectives to be studied for a specific intervention.

Keywords:

Parents' style, parents' profile, parents education.