Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.