Your Parenting Matters

Kids these days have so much more to deal with than the previous generations. With drugs, the internet, alcohol, education, there is a lot of stress and pressure that they have to work through. Is being a friend to your child a good thing or does it hurt your relationship with them as a parent? I think there is a fine line between the two but you can achieve a good balance of both. Respecting them and listening to them instead of just telling them what to do or ordering them around is a good way to establish some friend/parent boundaries. Showing them that you understand that they are their own person and can make their own choices is a great way to be a friend, but at the same time knowing that there are consequences to their choices and that there are rules they need to abide by if they are living with you, is the way to be a parent.

Kids these days have so much more to deal with than the previous generations. With drugs, the internet, alcohol, education, there is a lot of stress and pressure that they have to work through. Is being a friend to your child a good thing or does it hurt your relationship with them as a parent? I think there is a fine line between the two but you can achieve a good balance of both. Respecting them and listening to them instead of just telling them what to do or ordering them around is a good way to establish some friend/parent boundaries. Showing them that you understand that they are their own person and can make their own choices is a great way to be a friend, but at the same time knowing that there are consequences to their choices and that there are rules they need to abide by if they are living with you, is the way to be a parent.