Parenting

Putting more light on the parenting styles we read about in this chapter had me really thinking about how I grew up versus other people my age and then looking at my bother and stepsisters generation and how they were raised. A lot is different looking at how I grew up being raised by parents that never got married. Versus my step bothers and step sister who grew up with their parents being married and you had them as the permissive parenting style. Very wanting to be their friends, mom who did everything for them their laundry cleaning up after them. Not a lot of punishment was put on the table and it lead to my step brother getting into illegal activities and jail time because he didn't have the parental guidance and punishment I believe. They just kind of lived a life like most kids nowadays where child punishment is not a known thing.

Do not get me wrong though I am not parent, but i grew up seeing many different parenting styles first hand. When I look at how fortunate I was to have both of my parents around teaching me right from wrong and punishing me to the extent they thought I would learn to not do something again if I did not want punished.

All I can do is be thankful for having parents who did not want me to end up ruining my life in such a way that they would be disappointed in me. I have tried my life to make sure I would not disappoint them and do some of the things some parents kids do. Proper Parenting just seems hard to come by. Kids are having kids themselves with no care in the world with the kind of responsibility it takes to raise a chid and the financing when most still living with their parents barley working. The ones who do it and prove people wrong I commend them and give them all the props for going above and beyond like my parents did to give me the best life possible.