What Are The Parent Test Parenting Styles?

July 2024 · 3 minute read

ABC's 'The Parent Test' explores 12 different parenting styles. Let's find out more about each one.

Melissa Willets - Author

Many moms and dads would claim their parenting style trumps all others. Whether you’re overprotective or more loosey-goosey, we all try our darndest to do right by our kids. Now, ABC's The Parent Test is here to examine the notion that one parenting style is the best.

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The show’s synopsis explains that The Parent Test is based on a TV show from Australia and looks to “explore the many distinctively different parenting styles.” So who will win — the helicopter mom or the so-called new-age parent? Let the parenting games begin!

What are ‘The Parent Test’ parenting styles?

Twelve families participate in the unscripted examination of parenting styles (with each representing a different approach to child-rearing). Here are the 12 different parenting styles on The Parent Test, per Romper:

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According to the show synopsis, the parents “may have conflicting opinions on how to raise their families, but they all share the common goal of raising happy, healthy children.”

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Who are ‘The Parent Test’ hosts?

The hosts and moderators of the show are Ali Wentworth and parenting expert Dr. Adolph Brown. Ali is married to Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos, and the couple shares two daughters, Harper and Elliot. As she joked about her parenting style to ABC 7, "Sometimes they don't listen to 'you can't wear that, you can't do that,' so, I've used comedy so if they're wearing something inappropriate I'll say, 'oh so you're a Kardashian now.'"

Meanwhile, according to his Instagram, Dr. Brown is a dad of eight and a professional parenting educator. Along with Ali, he will help families understand how their parenting styles work well — and not so well — as they put them to the test via various challenges and exercises.

The Parent Test airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on ABC.

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