<p>Many of you on CC are academically bright students but do your parents have anything to do with it? My parents are really strict about school, manners and religion and I know without my dad I would not have the grades and achievements I have now because I had no motivation when I was younger? XP So how strict are your parents?? :)</p>
<p>My parents are rather relaxed about everything, from grades to my social life. I used to get two-hour lectures if I got less than a 92, but now, they don’t seem to mind at all what grades I get! Their insistence on excellence in the past has made me become more independent, and a hard worker as well. So they don’t need to worry about it anymore.</p>
<p>Yay for chill parents! (:</p>
<p>My mother spent the first few years of my life teaching me everything. By the time I reached kindergarten, I was reading chapter books and writing paragraphs. However, after I started school, my mother let the school start teaching me. My teachers would give me advanced courses and whatnot. Now, my mother lets me make all of my academic decisions because she knows she gave me the foundation to think on my own. Now, my lowest grade is a 97 in my Alg I Class. I know I couldn’t have done any of this without her guidance in my early years.
Socially, my mother is pretty laid back. She trusts me to not do anything stupid, and I have no wish to go crazy. The only thing she monitors is my wardrobe lol! An example of my mom’s parenting style would be my allowance. I come from an upper-middle class family, but my mom always made sure I knew the value of a dollar. However, she had an unusual way of doing this. Instead of giving me an allowance, she gave me as much money as I needed/wanted. When you have a $50 allowance, you can spend all of it without any guilt, but when you have no set limit, you’re either going to spend a lot or feel guilt for every dollar. I personally feel guilt for every dollar, and I’m now financially capable with a sense of budget.</p>
<p>My parents are like Cassat’s, I suppose: easy-going and chill. They have been stressing the importance of a good education to me my whole life (it’s been a plan for a while that I would go to a boarding school), but they didn’t push it too much, and it was me who came home one day and said, “I want to go to boarding school.”</p>
<p>My parents were strict, at first, too, and let me become more independent as life went on.</p>