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Pin pointing a specific parenting style that I was raised by was quite difficult. I believe that most parents use different styles throughout the raising of their children. Of course, I do understand that this paper is to select the dominate style of parenting used for my upbringing, but I was raised in two different households. Each household had its own dominate parenting style, however most of my life I was raised by my mother, so I’ll focus on her parenting style. As I stated above, I believe parents use almost all the parenting styles in dealing with different situations. My mother was no exception to this. She could go from authoritarian to permissive without even blinking an eye, which is why I was difficult for me to select a …show more content…

Overall, my mother was distant and didn’t expect much from my siblings and me. An example of this parenting style would be when I found out I had received a scholarship from the Heartland Foundation. When my mother found out she went on multiple social media sites to tell everyone the good news, but she did not contact me at all. I ended up asking her to be my plus one to the scholarship dinner; I guess I’m still stuck in the loop of trying to make her proud. On the way to the dinner the car was filled with silence. No congratulations. No “I’m proud of you” moments. Just heavy silence. At the dinner we spoke maybe twenty words to each other. Most of these words were commenting on how nice the Bone Student Center looked and how delicious the meal was. When the dinner ended, my mother drove me back home and said goodbye. No “I love you”. Nothing but goodbye. Another example of my mother’s disengagement would be when my sister was suspended multiple times and almost expelled. My sister tried to find attention from other people since she was receiving none at home. Her way of gaining this attention was getting into fights, and sadly, it worked. It took three incidents to gain the attention of my mother, and this only gained her attention because she received three different tickets for the fighting from the police

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