Mandatory Blog Post: 2
If you have kids, will you raise them the same as your parents have raised you? Why or Why not? (Consider what they’ve done right and what you feel they’ve done wrong.)
If I do have children in the future, I would definitely raise them the way my parents raised me. They would be a reference point to how I raised my own children. First of all my parents did not have any children until they were 33 and 34, so they got to enjoy their twenties care-free without having to worry about having a baby sitter. Also my mother was a stay-at-home mom until my sister and I were about six or seven years old, so we did a lot of fun stuff as children. We went to the zoo every week, we went on walks all the time, and we never had to go to daycare. We were lucky enough to be able to live on a one person income comfortably which allowed mom to take time off to raise us kids. I was punished but never to an extreme, the only time that I can remember actually being upset was when I was not allowed to go on a field trip with the girl scouts when I was five.
As a child my upbringing was very exciting and fun, as I got older I got more freedom, which is great. My ultimate favorite thing about my parents parenting is that I have so much freedom and they are not strict at all. It takes a lot of the pressure of school and activities. In school for example, my household does not stress having all A’s and B’s, as long as they see effort and they know I am trying, they are okay with a few C’s and maybe a D if I am really struggling. But what this has done for me is allowed myself to want to succeed for myself, not for another person, which I think is a good trait to have. Now at almost seventeen years old my parents allow me to do the majority of what I want to do. They trust me and it is a rewarding feeling. When I have a family I want to be able to trust my children and I want them to trust me.
If you have kids, will you raise them the same as your parents have raised you? Why or Why not? (Consider what they’ve done right and what you feel they’ve done wrong.)
If I do have children in the future, I would definitely raise them the way my parents raised me. They would be a reference point to how I raised my own children. First of all my parents did not have any children until they were 33 and 34, so they got to enjoy their twenties care-free without having to worry about having a baby sitter. Also my mother was a stay-at-home mom until my sister and I were about six or seven years old, so we did a lot of fun stuff as children. We went to the zoo every week, we went on walks all the time, and we never had to go to daycare. We were lucky enough to be able to live on a one person income comfortably which allowed mom to take time off to raise us kids. I was punished but never to an extreme, the only time that I can remember actually being upset was when I was not allowed to go on a field trip with the girl scouts when I was five.
As a child my upbringing was very exciting and fun, as I got older I got more freedom, which is great. My ultimate favorite thing about my parents parenting is that I have so much freedom and they are not strict at all. It takes a lot of the pressure of school and activities. In school for example, my household does not stress having all A’s and B’s, as long as they see effort and they know I am trying, they are okay with a few C’s and maybe a D if I am really struggling. But what this has done for me is allowed myself to want to succeed for myself, not for another person, which I think is a good trait to have. Now at almost seventeen years old my parents allow me to do the majority of what I want to do. They trust me and it is a rewarding feeling. When I have a family I want to be able to trust my children and I want them to trust me.