but it didn't go over so well.
Too many people have been watching TV shows like the Gilmore Girls, where parents are friends it seems. They don't understand they are doing their kids a disservice in real life. It is not that parents can't be friends with their kids, but the relationship has to have the parental aspects too. That book I mentioned the other day "born Lucky", the dad was his best friend. His dad was also *very hard on him and made sure he lived to a value standard.
I think as you get older it does turn more into a friendship, but when they are kids, there definitely needs to be clearer boundaries. That seems to be falling to the wayside now though. As I said in one of my older posts, people have this you should do what you want kind of mentality. The rules don't really matter as long as you aren't hurting anyone. I'm not sure how we got from there to here.