Has your upbringing shaped your parenting style?

As you can imagine there are a lot of factors that influence your parenting style. For instance, merely saying that someone is a strict, authoritarian parent because he or she wasn't unconditionally loved as a child might have some elements of truth in it. However, it is too simplistic as entire cause for being a certain type of parent. Why? Because not all children with similar backgrounds become the same type of parents! There are many more factors at play in the creation of a parent's style of parenting than e.g. childhood love. Here is a list of some of the most important factors that in some way shape or form determine your way of parenting: Your type of adherence to the dominant cultural paradigm and mainstream discourse Your socioeconomic status and potentially your ethnic background Your parents' parenting style Your child's temperament and personality Your temperament and personality Your level of awareness As you can imagine, each person has various combinations of these factors which makes determining the reason for practicing a specific style very complex.