Personal Narrative: My Early Childhood

My early childhood holds some of my absolute favorite memories. I can remember so many good times with my friends and family but every time wasn’t perfect. When I did something bad a time out or in rare occasions a spanking would be my punishment. I would describe my parent’s style as authoritative. Authoritative parents are firm, setting clear and consistent limits. Although they tend to be relatively strict they are loving and emotionally supportive. They were defiantly firm in the way that I always knew if I was told to do something I should do it or face the consequences. For example if we were at a restaurant and I was being loud I would get at least one warning maybe two and then if I wasn’t listening I would have been put in timeout. The limits that my parents set for me as well and always stayed consistent. A example of that being if the rule was I had to go to bed at a certain time then that was the rule, no if ands or buts about it. The only people who got to change the rules were my parents no amount of my crying or complaining would change that. Both my parents always were supportive emotionally and loving. Even though there were times I wasn’t happy with my punishments they were being fair …show more content…
But my mom was a mixture of 2 Authoritative and permissive. The majority of the time my mom’s style was authoritative but because of her job and medical issues it caused her to be more permissive. Her work has always been stressful and her rheumatoid arthritis left her tired. In turn she often came home tired which caused her not interact with me as much as other moms would with their kids which I think bothered her. I think to make it up to me she would cut me some more slack and try and be the “fun parent”. My dad on the other hand was a firm authoritative parent no matter then circumstance. This isn’t bad because he offered slightly more consistency then my