“Is your parenting style similar to the one your parents used? If you don't have kids, have you thought about how you will parent YOUR children??”
Probably there are some similiaries and as my parenting life progresses, I will see those more and more. It is inevitable that the handprint of parents who actively parent will come through their children, even if those children disagree(d) with some of their parents' methods. I used to tell myself I would never parent anything like my parents did. That was immature (and unrealistic). While it is one thing to break family curses, it is quite another to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Now, I realize that while they weren't perfect, neither were they malicious. And they didn't only make mistakes. Time as brought the realization that there are no parents who make no mistakes, only parents who realize they make mistakes and love through those mistakes long enough for the children to understand that mistakes are inevitable, not hateful. And then hopefully, the grown children raise their children using some of the positive tools that their parents instilled.