Atticus as a father

Atticus is a very calm and relaxed father. His parenting style is to let the kids make their own mistakes and have them learn from it. He trys to teach them that once you do something wrong then you have to make it better and making a scene about it doens't help fix the issue. Also when ever Scout or Jem got into trouble he always found a way to make them think about what they had just done or make them fix what ever problem they created without freaking out on them. For example when Jem knocked all the heads off of Mrs.Dubose's floweres and Jem was mad that he was going to have to read to her he said,"...Atticus, do I have to."and all he said in a calm voice was,"Certainly."

Atticus is not like my parents in anyway, actually like the complete opposite of my dad. My dad is a total micro-manager and if I screw up i'll get into trouble. He loves to tell people when, how, and where to do everything. Now my mom on the other hand is a little bit of a micro-manager but shes more calm about things. She understands more than my dad that if i mess up then i feel bad enough and she'll help me fix things. She also believes that i'll learn from my mistakes on my own like Atticus does. Im not sure if i would like Atticus as a father because i'm so used to my dad and I might actually get frusterated with him if he was my dad because he doesn't freak out about anything, even really big things.