Appropriate Expectations 4 Kids: Do You Have Any?

moonchild
Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:46:59 +0000

If you had chosen the latter approach wouldn’t you have been afraid they would turn away from you because you were so mean or whatever other fear sounds good?



I am thinking that you don’t see the difference between setting behavioral expectations and following through with consequences and setting expectations on whom to date based upon your (not your kids) biases and opinions. Parents who stay out of their kids’ love lives aren’t necessarily “hands-off” parents. You seem to want to believe that they are the same, and that those of us who think you should butt out of your son’s relationship are the kind of folks who just let their kids do their own thing in every aspect of their lives.
More rationalizing.