Seems to me that we always try to fix the "mistakes" of our parents. So generations tend to follow a "zigzag" pattern.
Parents strict and conservative? Kids react by being hellions. Kids raised by these hellion parents rebel by being conservative again.
Even more complicated when we throw siblings into the mix, because not only do you want to differentiate yourself from your parents, but from your siblings also.
What is interesting to me about this concept, however, is the reality that we all turn out the way we are in part because of exactly how we were raised. Our journey in life is about overcoming and surpassing our childhood and our parents. So if you want kids like you -- you should probably raise them exactly like you were raised. Otherwise, if you raise them along the lines of who you are now, they very well may rebel by being exactly who your parents ended up being!