Parenting

In our class discussion we talked about 3 types of parenting, authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive.    I'd heard about these different ways of parenting from my child development class but it was still interesting to hear about the class intake on these 3 different styles. When I took the the assessment online I got the authoritative style. When I was taking the test I realized that I was picking things my parents had done as they raised me. If I could teach my future kids the way my parents did I would die happy. I think my parents were really open with my brother and I but still have strict rules. We know better then to ever take advantage of our freedom and I always did everything to maintain their trust. When I did something wrong they never made me feel like I was a failure but they also didn't congratulate me on bad decisions. I was never one of those rebellious kids that would lie to their parents , I was always bluntly honest with how I felt which really shaped the kind of relationship my parents and I have now. I also liked how discussion on natural consequences because I think often we do not know how to tell those apart. When I think about parenting I always get scared because I want my kids to have the best parents ever, just like mine were :)