we can agree to disagree. I know I have no control over other people's kids...just my own. The smaller and smaller amts of time parents are spending with kids shows in many ways...this is just one more.
GODS! My mother micromanaged my life. She hounded me, was constantly up my ass, breathing down my neck, listened in on my phone calls, went through my letters and my diaries, was home every day and knew the time to the minute when I should be coming through the door and if I was more than five minutes late she was out looking for me . . .
And look how I turned out :rofl1:
Not a day goes by but she wonders how her values didn't take with me . . . of course, my sister's married to the man who was her boss who she was sleeping with while she was babysitting his kids when he and his wife were gone . . . tacky, tacky, tacky . . . but we don't talk about any of that :wall:
You never know how your kids are going to turn out or what they're going to do or how many of the values that are important to you they're going to reject or how many of your rules they're going to flaunt.
Never let yourself be fooled into thinking you have any sort of control over your kids after they reach *that* age.
Go back and read through Nancy's awful time with her daughter . . . and you couldn't ask for a more involved set of parents who tried to do the right thing than Nancy and her husband.