I love it when parents are actually parenting. My house, my rules. (You are such a threat to society!)
My dad used to tell me that one of the saints said the most perfect form of gov’t was a “benevolent dictatorship.”
I conveyed that to my only child, reminding him that I am the dictator. But reminding him that I’m benevolent.
But I AM the dictator. For good. (but I’m awfully nice, too)
heh