Comment Re:Hang on... (Score 1) 979
The fact that teens sneak out does not mean that the parents aren't lousy. They're still responsible, and they're still lousy for letting their teen sneak out in the first place. More to the point they are lousy parents for forcing their kid to feel like they have to lie and / or sneak out to do the things they want. I didn't sneak out, because I knew I could go to my parents and tell them exactly where I was going.
Spoken like a person who is either not a parent or a parent in denial. You gotta be kidding me. Even parents need to sleep sometime. I have a teenage boy at home, I'm fairly certain that because of the way my wife and I have raised him that he isn't sneaking out at night and he probably won't for at least another couple of years. The one thing I am sure about is that no matter how good my and my wife's parenting skills are, he will push his limits. At some point he is either going to sneak out, break curfew or do something else just as stupid and I'm going to have to come down on him for it. I did it, my siblings did it, my wife did it, her siblings did it, I think I may know 1 person who didn't. It's part of growing up, it's part of being human. We test our limits to find out how far we can go before consequences set in.
Spoken like a person who is either not a parent or a parent in denial. You gotta be kidding me. Even parents need to sleep sometime. I have a teenage boy at home, I'm fairly certain that because of the way my wife and I have raised him that he isn't sneaking out at night and he probably won't for at least another couple of years. The one thing I am sure about is that no matter how good my and my wife's parenting skills are, he will push his limits. At some point he is either going to sneak out, break curfew or do something else just as stupid and I'm going to have to come down on him for it. I did it, my siblings did it, my wife did it, her siblings did it, I think I may know 1 person who didn't. It's part of growing up, it's part of being human. We test our limits to find out how far we can go before consequences set in.
