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Originally Posted by JenTay
Plant,
Just be happy you are picking him up from jail and not the morgue. I recommend you take this as a wakeup call. Since I have no kids, I have no room to talk. However, I think that your role as a parent should be a parent and not a best friend. If it means being viewed as an ******* (thus uncool) by your kid, so be it. This is not the time to be inconsistent.
My $0.02 and will probably get change back.
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Exactly right. I'm sending you my teenager, UPS. Just kidding Jen, I really do think you got it.
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If you are his dad and not his buddy, when he grows into adulthood he'll make a good friend for you. But if you start out as pals, I don't think he'll respect you much when he gets older.
I abused a whole pharmacopeia until I got old enough to own stuff and thus, to be scared of being caught. It's a dumb waste of money and risk, but some knuckleheads refuse to see the obvious stupidity of their own behavior. Hope your kid isn't that looney. But regardless, you have to stand firm. Your house, your rules, everybody obeys.