jmra wrote:Based on what? Were your parents good parents? When you did something wrong or stupid, was it their poor parenting to blame or your poor judgement?Beiruty wrote:Parenting failure 101. Lesson #91.
I did some really stupid things as a teenager and it's only by the grace of God that none of them bit me on the butt. but, they were all my doings and had nothing to do with my parents. In fact, I have no doubt that some all night Intercessory prayer time on the part of my parents saved me more than once.
My Parents were like Hawks, and in Beirut, Lebanon through the years of my teens, my dad showed me "the sparkling lights" when I showed interest in one of the militias of that days. Like dad, I am too a hawk over my kids.
If said son was on drugs and burglarizing his Aunt's house, that is not lapse of judgment. That is evilness and/or de-atachment from reality.