Have any of you tried gentle parenting with your youngest child now that you're older and was a little strict with your now adult child?

I've parented all mine the same, but all children are different so you've got to adapt to what works for each one

Times have changed my parents were MUCH harder on me than my younger siblings who are 15-16-19 years younger than me

I think it's a learning curve thing. We all parent differently between oldest and youngest even boys and girls we don't mean to but unfortunately with our oldest we are learning from new and every child after we know a little more so we're better

I’ve parented all my kids the same.

No, I kept it gentle, aka authoritative, parenting for both my kids, 5 & 17. I learned this lesson from my parents mistakes, I didn’t want to be a partly or even mostly ok parent & lose one or both of my kids anyway, so I parented both my boys like I was parented & my brother parented his own kids like I was parented too. The thing is, dad knew he had made a mistake listening to our mom w/my brother, then she got noticeably sick when I was 3 & he was 16, very early onset Alzheimer’s & was gone when we were 7 & 20, so dad totally lost the opportunity to fix things w/my brother, he was too busy w/mom & me & needed my brother’s help, to make things right w/him, then I was a teen. Oscar Wilde said it best “kids begin by loving their parents, as they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them”, I wanted my kids to find it easy to forgive me, so I didn’t risk it by following other popular parental styles, I stuck to my instincts, bc I couldn’t care less what society thought.