The present study attempted to investigate the relationship of maternal parenting behaviors and young children’s independent completion on task. Fifty-eight dyads of children and their mothers were tested and followed up after six months. Maternal behaviors such as praising, repetition of children’s verbal responses, threatening, and physical interruption were measured when children were 17 months old in mother-child free play. In a clean-up session, children’s responses of completing task independently, with mothers’ assistance, with avoidance, or with refusal behaviors toward mothers’ demands were measured when children at 17 and 23 months. Familial socioeconomic status, mothers’ age and education served as families variables. Results suggested that with age, children increased their frequencies in independent completion of the task, and their needs in mothers’ assistance decreased. Mothers’ age positively correlated with their education and praising behaviors toward children. Children’s independent completion of the task at 17 months of age, were positively correlated with mothers’ education and threatening behavior. Children’s independent completions of the task at 23 months were positively both with children’s independent completion at 17 months and mothers’ verbal repetition behavior. At both 17 months and 23 months of age, children’s refusal behaviors toward mothers’ demands were negatively correlated with children’s independent completion of the task. Mothers’ physical interruption behaviors at 17 months were negatively correlated with children’s independent completion of the task at 23 months of age. At 23 months old, children’s avoidance behaviors were negatively correlated with their independent completion of the task. The results of hierarchical regression analysis with family background (step 1), children’s responses at 17 months (step 2), and mothers’ parenting behavior (step 3) suggested children’s independent completion behaviors at 17 months predicted children’s responses at 23 months when eliminated the effects of variables of family background.  Furthermore, with controlled of both family background and children’s responses at 17 months, mothers’ parenting behavior predicted the changes between children’s responses at 17 to 23 months.  The results suggested that maternal repetition of children’s verbal behaviors predicted the change of children’s independent completion in between 17 and 23 months of age.