Quote Originally Posted by tsy72001 View Post
I am sorry, and I do not wnat to fight, but this is what is wrong with youth today. To many allow and encourage youth to go against their parents and do what they want. Yes my son has a snake, yes he wants another one, but this is my home and my rules. Maybe one day he will get another, but when I say no I mean it. If he did break my rules there would be a punshiment, that would be getting rid of the snake if that is what the broken rule was. Why are jails so full?? Because there are people who think it is their right to do as they please. Learn respect and follow the rules that are set.
haha im sorry i cant help but laugh at that.. not trying to be rude but its parents like that that have the sneakiest children. the more you rule with an iron fist the more your kids are going to find ways to sneak around it. im in my 20s now and my parents tried that for a while when i was 12-16ish then when they realized it was a lot easier to be the cool parents we got along so much better. as long as we let them know what we were doing and where we were gonna be etc they didnt care all that much. we even started hanging out at the house soo much more haha so point of the story.. if your gonna be a iron fist parent then your gonna get hurt when your kids rebel and leave as soon as they can get a foot out the door and push you away as fast as they can.. but if you want to be a little slack and see it from your kids point of view and take interest in it with them.. then your going to have a lot better relationship at the end of the day..