I remember as a child, growing up I was always told “ Children should be see and not heard.” I have come to realize that I was raised in a very authoritative household, which my mother was firm but also compromising. My mother was forgiving whenever I made a mistake and she listened to my feelings. My mother had a way of getting me to see the error in my own ways when I did something wrong. Once I moved with my father and stepmother I then lived in an authoritarian household.
At my fathers household there was very little room for error, but we never received clear instructions. My father had little involvement in raising us, he traveled a lot for work leaving my stepmother as the primary