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Originally Posted by tspikes51
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.
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That depends on the kid. My parents basically let me do what the hell ever I want, provided that I got results - ie: good grades, not doing anything stupid, not getting in trouble (with the school/law), etc.... I turned out OK so far - my ED app for Princeton went in on Monday. It really depends on the kid. Some kids need lots of discipline and structure, though as far as I've seen this usually masks and simultaneously exacerbates any problems that its intended to cure.
In any event, I'd worry more about the WHY of a 12 year olds desire to wear a thong than the what. If its just peer pressure from other girls or something insignificant like that, then go ahead and let them. I'd only worry if it was because of a desire to get with boys.
And just as a note to all the people in here damning girls who "dress like whores," I do think thats a generational/personal thing. A good many girls I know dress in "revealing" clothes yet don't whore themselves out - they just do it to be fashionable and/or because they personally like the clothes. Just a thought...