thereisnospoon
Gold Member
You did the right thing. You allowed your kids the freedom to think for themselves yet alerted them to the consequences of irresponsible behavior.who knows what can be done? no one.
my parents were authoritarian conservatives who tried to tell me what to think and I turned out to be a disinterested dirty hippie. I refused to tell my kids what to think but pointed out consequences and asked them what they thought was right and what made sense and they turned into articulate, moral and motivated conservatives. its a mystery to me.
of course not having cable until they were teenagers might have had an impact.
My friend's wife( they are separated) and her siblings were raised in a strict Christian home by a father who was a baptist minister. These 4 people ( the children) are some of the most screwed up flaming libs known to mankind. None of them are what most of us would consider normal. I could bore the members with the antics of these sit heads, but i won't bother. Use your imagination and you'll probably hit the mark.
The way I see it kids need and want boundaries. However, if parents choose to set hard draconian rules for their kids, their children will want to do bad things all that much and more.
We raised our son to think for himself but again, alerted him to the consequences of stupidity. The result, no drugs, no booze, no gangs, no problems.