How Strict Were/Are Your Parents?

[Odin]

They were not strict, I wasn't a brat either.

[Pigling]

My mother is sort of Liberal person.

I had modern way of rising.

[Ashlyn]

I am sure to some (cousins & friends mention it, but I don't see it because to me they weren't) my parents would be considered quite strict in many ways. Dad was quite authoritarian in the earlier / teenage years.

But they had established ground rules & boundaries, even when we were quite young, and these rules were enforced. It wasn't as if you did something stupid or went against their rules you were in for a belting. Rather because of the way our parents brought the four of us up as they treated us like young adults not entirely as children (or needing hands helded for every little thing) so we all knew independence & self-discipline early on. It was, in our household, expected for you to explain why you did this or that when told not to & oftentimes the resultant sense of disappointing a parent was quite effective discipline. Never been struck once, never had to have a "time out", never had to be bribed to behave, etc.


Alcohol

No. Some of my cousins & their friends were drinking underage. My parents just didn't encourage it. Rather the mentality was self-discipline. You could try it, same with other things, but you were supposed to know your limits & keep to those limits.

Relationships

I have never had either parent tell me off about a friend but then I have a very good sense about people. Sexual - spoke about it when young, expectations were don't whore around. I don't get involved with anyone that they'd have told me off about anyway.


Politics

Neither influenced anything with regards to political view and though I & mum have lively political discussions they aren't common.


Religion

Neither parent is highly religious (in the western sense) and even their parents weren't that religious; only one grandparent ever attended church routinely & that was more because of town expectations than anything for there was never a bible in the house.

[Bobby Martnen]

My parents were strict when I lived with them, but they've lightened up a lot since I've gone off to college.

When I have children, I will not be strict, with the exception that sex and dating are absolutely forbidden until they're 18.

[Smeagol]

Not really, I could basically do whatever I wanted.

[Bobby Martnen]

We were determined to get married. My mom knew it wasn't going to work out but instead of standing in my way and trying to tell me what to do (I wouldn't have listened anyway) she let us go ahead with it. I was 18 when I got married, with stars in my eyes, convinced that this was true love. At the end of the day it was a marriage just on paper. I don't even classify it as a marriage which is why I never mention it. I got divorced when I was 21. My mother and grandmother never interfered in any of my business.

I wish that I had gotten married at 18 for a few years so I could have some kids, and then divorce and get full custody.

I'm not really interested in having a wife, but I'd love to have some little MARTNENI1TES

[The Blade]

Balanced parents and I have never been a spoilt brat or a sissy with no opinion either.