Sharon: A parenting style is a different way to parent your children or discipline them, or guide them, lead them. The three parenting styles are authoritative, permissive, and authoritarian. I think the authoritative style gives the child a little bit of freedom, but still sets guidelines for them and boundaries.

Evelin: The permissive parent is the one that tells you, well, you can go ahead and just do whatever you want.

Authoritarian parent is a parent that is very strict. It's the one that tells you, oh, you have to do this, and you have to make sure you do it. Because if you don't, there's going to be punishment.

My father was a belt kind of guy. So yeah, he was very authoritarian. Well, we got spanked. Or as you got older, you got things taken away, or not allowed to do things, that type of thing-- punishments of some sort.

Kyndell: I definitely grew up with authoritative parenting styles. My parents set rules, but they also let me discuss them, and they educated me on why they were making those rules.

Sharon: Probably permissive was the parenting style that I grew up with. If I did something that was not allowed, it probably went unnoticed or not acknowledged.

Monique: Growing up we had an authoritarian style of parenting. So basically whatever my dad said was the way it went, no questions really asked. We said, "Yes, sir," and "Yes, ma'am" a lot. So it was pretty much his way.

Andrew: There was one kid though, whose parents-- and I think that's how I'm kind of trying to model my life is as authoritative. They worked with him. He understood why certain rules exist. And you could even see it. Like as a kid, when I would talk to him, and you know, I'd complain about things that my parents weren't explaining to me, and he'd say, well, this is a curfew, for instance. Why do I have to go home at this time? And this kid, because his parents took the time to explain to him why everything is the way it is, he was able to explain that to me. And when I look at my future kids, I want them to be that kid. I want my kid to be the one saying, that's why things are the way they are.

Courtney: I like to use authoritative. Where I have a 9-year-old that likes to ask me questions why-- why do I have to do this? Why do I have to do that? So when I make rules for my children, I like to explain to them, you know, this is why Mommy still needs to do this. This is why we have to do this. This is preparing you for life.