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So if it wouldn't alienate the child, why shouldn't you do it?
I didn't say it wouldn't either.
It's a bad idea because parents and kids are at different levels. Do you ask your friends to buy you clothes and food? Do you also also them to drive you places and for permission to go out??
There are emotional boundaries that should not be crossed. What you are describing sounds like it's more for the parents ego than for the child's well being.
It's a bad idea because parents and kids are at different levels. Do you ask your friends to buy you clothes and food? Do you also also them to drive you places and for permission to go out??
There are emotional boundaries that should not be crossed. What you are describing sounds like it's more for the parents ego than for the child's well being.
I personally don't, but I see lots of people ask each other to pay for their meal because they are broke.
I think driving is annoying so I ask people to drive me places on occasion.
I make no distinction between anyone at first. I treat everyone equally. Treating people on different tiers sounds incredibly arrogant.
Okay, so my wife and I are first times parents to a teenage girl...ugh! And it's pretty rough. So our daughter wants to hang out with her friends, but our only rule is: We have to meet the person/people first. And now she questions it, which is what we expected. But when she asks, "Please give me a good reason that you want to meet them." I feel as though the reasoning has to be more than "because we say so", or "that's the rule", or "for you own and our own safety", etc, etc...
What other reasons have you guys used when it comes to meeting your child's friends that they want to hang out with when and if you're questioned by them?
Easily fixed, tell her you meet her friends or she does not leave the house.
Like in post #26 when you were judging someone because of their music choices?
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