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When it comes to parenting styles, how do you compare to your upbringing?

What have you learned from your parents about what to do - or what not to do?

I am stricter than my parent(s) were with me (13.1%)

I am about the same as my parent(s) were with me (32.0%)

I am more relaxed than my parent(s) were with me (30.4%)

I don't have kids (24.5%)

When it comes to parenting styles, how do you compare to your upbringing?
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  • bikergirl76 By bikergirl76
    on Jun 04, 2012  

    We grew up with lot of morals and family values, cause & effect method a little relaxed.. My parenting style is mix of how we were raised & with bit more discpline and structure.

  • Whittdog23 By Whittdog23
    on Jun 04, 2012  

    I think i would be like my parents but a lil more relaxed

  • GinaLola By GinaLola
    on Jun 04, 2012  

    My mother was a single parent to five children. She was strict, demanded respect, and gave us so much love. She taught us how important family is. My mother made my childhood magical and special, and hope to be half the parent she was to me. I'm doing my best to follow in her foot steps!

  • 1SwtWrld By 1SwtWrld
    on Jun 05, 2012  

    This day and age is way different than when I was growing up, but I feel I am the same as my parents were, I just have to be a little more cautious, I don't let my daughter who is 13 go to the mall by herself and such.

  • dmp515 By dmp515
    on Jun 05, 2012  

    I grew up in a home that didn't have a lot of money and both parents worked full time. My parents were very strict and everyone had to pitch in with household duties and watching the younger ones.....so there was no staying after school for activities. I took a whole other approach and wanted my kids to have the experiences that are offered through out their school years. I encouraged my children to be active and didn't make them held down by after school chores, etc. They still had to keep their room clean and help out with other chores when they were home....but school was their "job".

  • LMP4775 By LMP4775
    on Jun 05, 2012  

    I don't think we had a strict up bringing. We had certain rules to follow and my parents raised us to respect elders and people in general. I instill the same values on my daughters and also try to let them become their own little people, w/in reason :) I just wish more parents would actually parent and care about what their children do. I hear so much of "I just let them work it out"... How does that work, if possibly nobody taught them the skills they need to "work it out". Kids need help growing up too.

  • crh3037 By crh3037
    on Jun 05, 2012  

    I was taught moral values and respect for others. I tried to teach this to my child but somewhere through the years these ideas and value have slowly disappeared. I see our society becoming less Godly and more of a ME generation.