Started to happen when I was a kid in the early 1990s. Sometimes parents get way too involved in their children. Parents should not be their children’s friends.
The # 1 reason why kids are screwed up in this country.
Today's generation of parents have bought the line of poppycock nonsense pablum that your child will be "damaged" by low self esteem if you treat them like your offspring rather than a friend.
Having raised six myself, I was never my child's friend, I was their parent. It was a God given responsibility to raise them, not befriend them