The moral development of children can depend on many factors. The child's parenting and upbringing, his or her environment, social environment, gender, and race are all aspects that can contribute to how a child develops his or her moral standards and expectations. Many psychologists have been trying for several years to develop a theory of how morality develops. One in particular is Lawrence Kohlberg (1958), his theory of moral development is based on the cognitive development of children and moral development is thought to proceed and change as cognitive development occurs (Arnett, 2012). Kohlberg's theory of moral development consists of 3 different levels, each containing 2 stages, for a total of 6 stages of moral development, as conducted by Kohlberg. These studies state that all actions have a goal in mind. This would also affect how children develop moral standards. An example of this would be that if a child knew that he or she would be rewarded for things such as using the potty or behaving well in school, then he or she would try to do his or her best. Your child will carry these lessons with him as he grows and matures. In this article we will discuss Kohlberg's theory of moral development, provide insight into what other factors can influence the development of morality, and analyze parenting with an emphasis on parenting and the effects it may have. We will also develop theories that challenge Kohlberg's and bring to light what Kohlberg may have missed or that these can also be modified by environmental factors, but both our genetic composition and the environment we live in would influence our overall development, including the our moral development (Srivastava et al., 2013). However, moral development is not completely credited to one's genetic makeup, theorists such as Lawrence Kohlberg believe that moral development is underlined by an individual's cognitive development. He believed that moral thinking changed in predictable ways as cognitive abilities developed, regardless of culture (Arnett, 2012). As listed above, morality can be influenced by many factors, including a child's environment and parenting. Parenting has a greater effect on a child's morals than many scholars have described, but this is because a child's parents in early life are the only ones exposed to the culture and the teaching of norms and how to obey they. Parenting has no real right or wrong way to be done, but for over 5 decades research has been conducted trying to find out how parents parent. Over the course of almost all studies it has become clear that parenting seems to have two main aspects that construct it: demandingness and reactivity. With these two characteristics there are 4 main “parenting styles” that can be