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But it’s safer if kids drink at home with parents watching...oh wait. LOL.
“Parents trying to be their kids friends.”
These people are the right age to have been among the last of the hippies. The hippies were trying to be the opposite of their parents. If mom and dad wouldn’t have allowed drinking, smoking or drugs, they allowed each thinking they were much better than their parents. I’ve met type these people and their kids. And if one of their kids succeeds it’s a miracle.
My mommy and daddy are so cool. Check out their cool bracelets.
and yet these kids are supposedly old enough to change their sex or get an abortion
I see that a lot these days. My parents had no intentions of being friends with me. They laid down the rules and expected me to follow them "so long as I lived under their roof" - that's verbatim by the way.
I joined the Marines at 18 and my brother joined the Navy when he was 18. We both got the hell out of there. Only we found out that the military had FAR more rules to follow - and they did not love us like parents do. My sister was stuck there with them until she was married but followed all their rules in the meantime.
Over 40 years since leaving the nest and I remain on very formal (but amicable) terms with both my parents. I respect them. I have earned their respect. But we are not "buddies" in any way, shape or form. When I go to visit them, I do not want to make either of them angry with me and get myself grounded or something!
Glad to see this. The dangers of alcohol seem like old news to today’s generation; but it’s still a very dangerous drug; all the more so for inexperienced drinkers and drivers. And apparently, knife users.
When parents let their teens go to other kids’ parents’ houses in today’s environment, they are taking a risk when they don’t know the family well. And almost-grown kids will go where they want to go once they have the car keys. Society needs to enforce what’s not acceptable to do with other people’s children.