MY Best Interests

In my opinion, your parents should give you some advice, but ultimately let you make your own decisions. While parents should be involved in their childs life(unless we want more drug addicts and gang members )they shouldn't force things upon you. I have known kids who can't do things that they enjoy because their parents didn't like it. A friend of mine isn't supposed to talk to me anymore since I got them into metal music. Her mom took away a CD I loaned her because she thinks it is satanic music. This happens too often. Parents shoul encourage their children to think for themselves, not train them to follow them around and depend on them for everything. We may make mistakes, but that is how we learn about the real world. If we aren't allowed to do our own thing and learn about life, how are we supposed to survive when we go on our own?

I definitely agree with you. Parents should nudge their children in the right direction when they can, but they shouldn't completely barricade the path of evil. If parents always make decisions for their children and shelter them too much, the children will long for freedom so much that they'll probably go out and do overly extreme actions to get a sense of free will. Or, the children will grow up and, when they see what the real world's like, snap under the many pressures they'll face. That's not to say parents should just stand aside and watch as their children become corrupt; like you said, parents should be fully involved in their children's lives, especially when they're young. As they grow up, their parents should slowly but steadily ease off on their grip of the children's lives until they no longer need the guidance of their parents to make the right decisions.