Comparison Of My Parenting Style

When it comes to parenting, both of my parents were authoritative styled. They really respected our choices while we grew up. Rules were enforced but there was always acceptance for mistakes that happened. My parents made sure to let us be ourselves and make our own decisions. For example they let us choose sports we would play, clubs we would join, and clothes we would wear. This though, would be monitored; such as informing me the outfit I was wearing was too provocative.
The consistency of my parents parenting style was great. The main way I can tell that my parents were concise with the way they parented all three of us girls, was the acceptance part of their parenting style. My parents always made sure all three of us girls knew if we did something wrong, no matter how bad it was that we could come them with the issue. This was something that was true for all three of us and this never changed. Another aspect of their concise parenting was how they used the same parenting style on all three of us. There is a 7 year gap between my older sister and my youngest sister. My parents used the same parenting style, they both seemed to always agree on the way they raised us and what rules we had. An example of this is we were never allowed to or told to, “go ask mom” or “go ask dad”. We …show more content…
Valuing and believing the same things as my parents took place at this stage. The main thing I remember when I was about 6 was valuing gardening with my mom. I valued her passion for gardening and imitated this value. My behaving like her helped to ensure the love between our relationships. This also touches on purpose, before I would imitate my mom’s behaviors such as how to wash my hands. But now this was to another level, it was something we did regularly and we asked each other to do. It wasn’t just an imitation to learn something it was an imitation that kept