Parenting Styles The Glass Castle was written by Jeanette Walls and tells the story about her life as a child. Throughout the story, the Walls family easily exemplifies a permissive parenting style through the interactions, lessons, and conversations that Rex and Rosemary have with their children. Permissive parents are, “Often taking on the status of a friend more than a parent” (Cherry, “The Four Styles of Parenting”). One example of this from the Walls family is the time that, “Mom started yelling at Lori to prove to Miss Beatty that she was capable of disciplining her students” (75). Beating her child to impress someone else is not a motherly action. The interaction was more similar to a friend trying to help another friend by