How much of an 'alternative' parent are you?

Question

Or if you are not a parent (yet), how 'alternative' were your parents?
Not that i've got a ready definition of alternative so decide for yourselves how to interpret it.

Answer 1

the alternative parent does something what is out of norm. Maybe revives old folksongs with the children. Maybe does some exercise with the kids, Maybe watches a programme with the kids and discusses it with them.

Answer 2

Well, I'm not a mommy yet so I can't answer this from my own perspective but as for my parents, there is nothing alternative about them. Just your average, old school fundamentalist Christian parents who were born in the early fifties.

To be honest, there is things that I would do in this lifetime that neither of my parents would attempt or think about especially when it came to parenting. To say the least, I'm much more open-minded and have learned from my parents mistakes thus making me a 20 times better parent if not more than they are.

Answer 3

Sadly no kids as yet but hoping that that day will come at some point. Have lost my first true love due to petty arguments about nothing. Lesson learned, never say anything that you do not mean.

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Answer 4

My parents believed that kissing and hugging a child was "spoiling" it. They also believed - and this is in the 70's - that girls were to do the drugery, while boys were to be encouraged to become "real" men. My mother believed in "putting the man first" the kind of thing that my father would get bacon and eggs for breakfast and we would get porridge.
My own attitude to my children is very different. I put the family first - we all get bacon and eggs or we all get porridge. I believe that to be a mother you must be properly educated and so I encourage my daughters to learn. My kids are kissed and cuddled. They get pocket money and fashionable clothes, so that they fit in. They have the latest gadgets too - I grew up never having a hairdryer,for example. And my girls are treated the same as my boys - there's no "she's a girl" or "he's a boy" nonsense - they're all people and making allowances for the sex is okay, but not to label them.
I sill expect the high standard of behaviour my own parents demanded, although I don't smack as my parents did -"whack-a-matic". And I encourage my kids to tell me what they wants and to discuss their needs. Something my own parents never did - we were ordered about. We weren't people, just paraasites to be endured and then, depending on the mood, gotten sentimental over.
Is that what you mean?

Answer 5

My parents were alternative. In the 40s and 50s they did not believe in smacking, capital punishment, war and so on. They were vegetarian and artistic. Thanks parents!

They were well liked but many thought them quite mad! One advantage of today is that [some] people are openminded...

Answer 6

I`m very traditional. Marriage first, kids later. I stayed at home until they were at school, and then worked in the evening so their dad could look after them. I don`t see the point of having kids, then bunging them in a nursery all day and going to work.

Answer 7

not sure what you mean here, but alls i can say is, with my children (2 girls), i just try to give them the things i didnt have, and not make the same mistakes my parents did! (my mum and dad split when i was 6), i would like them to grow up with both parents, a true happy ending, and i try my very best, im dreading it when they are older, and i just hope they dont have teenage years like i did (i was a little fucker)!

Answer 8

I don't think you should be "alternative" as a parent I think you should love, support and be stable for your children and allow them to talk to you about anything and everything

Answer 9

Reading your name and your question makes me think of alternative medicine

Answer 10

extremely alternative, the kind who has no kids

my parents were strange, depression babies, so no waste

even now my mom won't use more than 2 inches of water in the tub, they are rich too

they were really good parents, conservative before my older sis, liberal after, there was no way for me to shock them after what she did.