Quote: (07-05-2012 12:41 AM)Juan Antonio Wrote:
Kids are soft. American kids need some tough love Jack Arnold parenting.
Maybe, but remember that it was the generation raised on Jack Arnold parenting that, in turn, raised this generation of useless kids. They grew up feeling that daddy didn't love/get/pay enough attention to them, so they over-compensated with their own kids.
There's got to be some middle ground where you can be emotionally available to your kids, but not spoiling them. The big thing is which way approval runs. Like the article pointed out, there's so many parents who want their kids to approve of them when it should be the other way around.