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Originally Posted by Washington
I hope I am not taking you out of context, but I heartily disagree. A parents job is to be a childs friend. Obviously its not a one dimensional problem, but parents should not be dictators.
A parents job is to be a guide to a child on this wonderful ride we call life. Perhaps not so much when the child is 3, but when they are 11...they are perfectly capable of understanding...what is that....the preoperational stage right?....they understand abstract ideas, they understand right and wrong (as much as anyone else does anyway)....at this point in their life a parent ought to be, as I said earlier, a guide....be there for questions and guidance....
Im only 20, perhaps I will feel differently when im older....
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As an 18 year old non parent, I will say you could not be more wrong. This is the problem: if parents act as friends, the kids can't learn correctly what's right and what's wrong. Thinking of how I would have turned out if my parents didn't give me rules when I was 11, I would have dropped out of school without passing the 4th grade, been addicted to drugs, made multiple girls pregnant, been constantly drunk, and probably would be dead. Now, I could always come to my parents and talk to them, but if they would have caught me doing drugs, they would have punished me. Parents need to make rules to protect children and make them into productive, responsible members of society.