Personal Essay: My Parenting Style

My Parents Parenting Style Throughout this essay I will discuss the parenting styles of my mother and step-father. While my mother was more of an authoritative parent, my step-father was more permissive. I got away with fewer things with my step-father than with my mother. I benefited from having an authoritative mother when I got older. Whereas when I was younger I gravitated to the permissive parent. Nevertheless, I am fortunate to have the balance between parenting styles. My mother was an authoritative parent. If there was something she told me to do before she come home or before I go to sleep then it most certainly better have been done. As a child, I did not respond well to hollering or being forced to do something. I often received whippings from my mother because of it. Although she did whip me, she always made sure she explained that I must follow her rules at all times. I hated getting whippings so I found it easier to just listen to what she asked me to do. When I was twelve-years-old she told me we were moving to a rural area of the town we live in, Brownsville, Tennessee. I despised the idea of moving because I made a lot of friends where I lived. However, we still ended up moving, but she let me pick the house …show more content…
However, I spent most of my time with my step-father. My mother dislike the idea that my step-father always agreed with me, regardless of the situation; I called him the “fun parent” growing up. When I attended grade school, my bed time was nine o’clock. However, my mother worked from eight o’clock at night until eight o’clock the next morning so, my step father would let my brother and I stay up past nine o’clock. When my step-father would take my step-brother and me to the store, we would fill the shopping cart with whatever we wanted. Whereas, if we went to the store with my mother there was a limit to what we were allowed to