Putting on Clown Makeup - Parenting 100

"We're always hearing complaints about the rudeness of the rising generation. But though I'm nearly 60 myself, I'm far more often impressed at the rudeness of parents to their children…. [They] Provide a ready answer to the old question, 'Why are they always out? Why do they seem to prefer every house in the neighborhood to their own?' They prefer civility to barbarism."

I had an epiphany a while back that there are two types of parents, hyper-attentive parents and laid back parents. Attentive parents are REALLY good with young kids, but their attention fucks up the kid's independence later in life, laid back parents are really great with older kids but their lack of attention for the young ones can really fuck them up early in life in ways they can never mentally heal from. Both kinds of parents fuck up at some point in the kids life, its an inevitable strife in existence.