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Is being your teen's best friend conducive to effective discipline?
Results so far:
| Yes | 31% | 116 votes | Total: 377 votes | |
| No | 69% | 261 votes |
Yes
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Created on: September 14, 2009
Is being your teen's best friend conducive to effective discipline?
It is my humble opinion, after raising
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Created on: December 06, 2007 Last Updated: September 30, 2010
I have been a single father for 25 years, and I had chosen to be up front and honest towards my daughter
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Created on: May 11, 2009 Last Updated: May 13, 2009
If corporate discipline worked I would say yes, but time has proven that in only causes resentment
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Created on: July 10, 2008
I can say that I have effectively disciplined my now 17 year old daughter, soon to be 18 in August by
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Created on: June 24, 2008 Last Updated: May 19, 2012
I suppose it's the "best" that gives me cause to pause. Personally, I don't take issue with parents
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by Amy Black
Created on: February 13, 2008 Last Updated: February 18, 2008
Being a teenager is hard. I know this because I was a teenager once. I remember having to deal with
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by Bj Frost
Created on: December 06, 2007
How many times have you told your son, or daughter, to do something, and they asked, "Why?" because
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Created on: December 10, 2007 Last Updated: December 16, 2009
Does anyone remember the old TV show, "The courtship of Eddy's Father"? It had a great theme song...People.
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Created on: December 27, 2007
My mom was and still is a free spirit. I honestly remember her spanking me only two times in my life.
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No
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Created on: December 24, 2010 Last Updated: December 28, 2010
This article is a take on a little bit of both sides of this issue. I do believe that being your teen’s
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by Norma Budden
Created on: March 11, 2008
Parents effectively discipline teenagers when they are not their teens' best friends. Of course, in
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Created on: January 18, 2009 Last Updated: July 19, 2010
I once as a teen asked my mom why she wasn't my best friend and she said her job was to teach me to
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by Beth Jackson
Created on: July 06, 2010
Teenagers do not want their parents as their best friends. Too many adults would like to live vicariously
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Created on: August 23, 2008
To the side of those who choose to vote that being your teen's best friend IS conducive to effective
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by Ashlye K
Created on: May 19, 2009 Last Updated: May 22, 2009
Parenting is, hands down, the most difficult and rewarding job in the world. Despite the warm feeling
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by Dawn Clear
Created on: April 19, 2009 Last Updated: April 20, 2009
I think back to all the friends that I have had growing up, prior to graduating high school. Some of
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Created on: February 14, 2008
There is a very good reason why we call parents just that instead of friend. A friend is someone that
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Created on: December 09, 2007
A teen's best friend should be another teen, someone similar in age, in experience, and in maturity.
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Created on: May 28, 2008
We, as parents, have a very important role to play when it comes to raising our children. However, there
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