International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR)   Year: 2022 | Volume: 6 | Issue: 11 | Page No.: 158-164 Parenting 21ST Century Adolescents through Multi Parenting Styles Skills (MPSS): Implications for Counseling Download PDF OLAOGUN, Ganiyu Olakunle, PhD, OLAGUNJU, M.K.O PhD, OYEDAPO, Philip Ibukun Abstract: Adolescent behavior patterns are more often linked, to the parenting style prominent in the family setting. Arguments in favor of this view, fail to recognize the import of many other factors that are equally competing with the efforts of parents in influencing the behavior patterns of the adolescents. The effects of social media platforms and increasing peer influence have been recognized as apt, in defining adolescents more than those of parents. Adolescents are more often confused on the choice of; what should define their behavior patterns, between culture (parents), peer group and the social media. The peculiarity of adolescence as a period of 'stress and storm' suggests that, no single parenting style can exclusively guarantee successful parenting. The position of this paper is that, parents may need more education on all parenting styles' skills to be successful in parenting the 21st century adolescent. Parents may need to switch in between dominant parenting styles and abridge the positive skills in several parenting styles among the established modes, including authoritative, authoritarian, permissive and the uninvolved, in parenting the 21st century adolescent. The paper canvasses for the adoption of Multi Parenting Styles Skills (MPSS) by parents to achieve, successful parenting of the 21st century adolescent.