How to Be friends with your Children
How to Be a Parent, Not a Friend
Your children’s friends may be more numerous and eligible than you are, but they lack parents, not friends. If you try to be their friend, who will be their parent?
Who will tell them “no”?
Who will send them to bed?
Who will attend parent-teacher conferences to hear about the importance of parental cooperation?
Who will pay for the neighbor’s broken window or their classmate’s broken glasses?
Life is like chess: the rooks, knights, bishops, and pawns must all be ...
