<p>Super conservative parent here - we taught our kids that there wasn’t ANYTHING that we couldn’t work through together.</p>
<p>That mistakes were mistakes, but they certainly weren’t the end of the world, and we can always find a way to move on, and they should ALWAYS tell us and trust us if they found themselves in any kind of trouble. We were there to help them, not condemn them. We had expectations, but also understood that our kids were going to miss the mark sometimes. We understand that everyone breaks a rule, and no one is perfect.</p>
<p>I think examples like the above are just completely tragic. We started talking to our kids about these things as soon as they could converse and as soon as they could break rules by their own will.</p>