Did you grow up with strict old school parents? While the idea of a classically strict parent,

seems to have mostly gone away in recent years as so-called gentle parenting or consequence-oriented

parenting has gained steam among those who want their children to feel more heard and respected,

perhaps sometimes a little overly heard to the point of indulgence, it's likely that many of us

grew up with,

or at least knew someone who grew up with some strict parents. For instance, if you're a boomer

born somewhere roughly between 1945 and 1965, there's a good chance you had the classic

father-nosed best family where punishment was dished out quickly for breaking rules or being disrespectful.

Parents back then were expected to be hard asses.

That was 100% the norm.

It was seen by many, if not most, as the only way to raise productive, respectable adults.

But if you're Gen X and were born between 1965 and 1980,

maybe you're one of those famed latchkey kids who walked themselves

home after school and had the TV to keep them company until their parents got home from work,

like I was for a few years. You also likely had much more lenient parents, or at least it was

easier to hide any rule breaking. Though strict parenting is found across time and space,

just like lenient parenting is, we can draw some general distinctions like the ones we just did,

not only across time, but across different groups in society as well. In the past decade,

we've seen plenty of cases of affluenza hitting the news. Kids who grew up without nearly enough

discipline and boundaries, kids who grew up rich and entitled with their parents, giving them

everything, including unlimited opportunities to keep fucking up and not suffer any negative

consequences for fucking up. And because of that, or so the media narrative goes, they never

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