There is no blanket formula for raising responsible, capable, well-adjusted kids (read with a threshold below 2 around here for further proof). Each parent needs to be as involved in the supervision of their own kids to the level the child demonstrates is necessary. Helping kids learn the right way to make choices - sometimes dictating those choices for them - does not equal spoiling them, or crippling them intellectually or emotionally. It also does not make them incapable of making appropriate choices or being less well-rounded.
Responsibility != Freedom
Freedom = Privelage
Responsibility comes with expectations and is given. Privelages are earned. Each is done to the level the individual has shown an ability to handle. To do otherwise is to be foolish.
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There is no blanket formula for raising responsible, capable, well-adjusted kids (read with a threshold below 2 around here for further proof). Each parent needs to be as involved in the supervision of their own kids to the level the child demonstrates is necessary. Helping kids learn the right way to make choices - sometimes dictating those choices for them - does not equal spoiling them, or crippling them intellectually or emotionally. It also does not make them incapable of making appropriate choices or being less well-rounded. Responsibility != Freedom Freedom = Privelage Responsibility comes with expectations and is given. Privelages are earned. Each is done to the level the individual has shown an ability to handle. To do otherwise is to be foolish.