Were your parents more strict or more permissive/lax (in general)?

I think I would have to say my parents are more permissive/lax. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any rules in my house and my sisters and brother and I just do whatever the hell we want all the time, but listening to other people’s stories about date restriction and internet restriction and TV restriction and regulation dinners and all that…just didn’t really have that with me. Mostly because there wasn’t really anything to cause them to do that.

And you know, a lot of kids know my parents. My mom is big around the school, she knows all the teachers, she knows tons of kids, even plenty I don’t hang out with. Plenty of people know my dad too. I feel like my parents, esp. my mom, are more “in tune” with that kind of thing than most people’s are.

My parents’ parenting styles are based largely on what my mom’s parents’ parenting styles were like. They’ve worked for two generations. I liked the way my parents were and I hope that if I ever have kids, I will be like them. I will at least start out following that pattern and change according to specific situations and needs. No one parenting system works for all kids.