I dunno bout outside, but atleast here in my country, we're told that Parents always take the right decision(s); that they're our best friends and always mean good for us. I understand that, but why do they expect us to be like them? Often during arguments, my Father would say - "you're growing out of your shoes", or "We're experienced, you should learn from others' mistakes and do what we tell you to" ... etc. But isn't it human nature that he learns from something only when he goes wrong himself? I understand they mean good, but why can't you just let someone live and experience Life properly, with all the hardships.

Also, we often argue a lot about general day-today issues. Are they always right?

I am a senior in high school, still living with my parents, and I have to say, I don't believe they are always right. Granted they USUALLY are looking out for what they believe to be their child's best interst, there are times where what they believe to be the best interest is wrong.


there are also there tragic times where the parents are NOT looking out for there child's best interst, and it tends to be depressing when they are abusive and such.

It's important for a child to grow up and become there own person. Nothing irks me more than when a child says they believe something "just because their parents do". Its insane, and I hope that in the future generations, and with my kids, that is not forced upon them.


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Trab

granted they are not always right but they generally do have your best interests at heart.
they deserve respect for that as they have sacraficed a lot over the years to give you a good education,and a good stable home life.

i admit i was a ratbag child ,but as i have grown up and have really started to see what my parents did give up to feed us ,cloth us and everything else that goes with raising a family.

i have a new found respect for my parents.

Voted Mostly

As a parent myself, I can most certainly say I am not always right. Even with sole regard to the children rather than life as a whole I can still be wrong.

If I maka a mistake with my children I just apologise and correct the matter, the important lesson is that noone is *always* right, there is no shame in saying "I don't know, let me find out".

Parenting is a hugely complicated subject with no manual or Undo; you really do have to make the best of it first time around, whether you succeed I think you only find out when they have kids of their own and how they do

I was about to reply, then I read this post. I'll just say, "I agree with what Subban said."

I'm a parent, and the answer is yes. Now shut off that computer and go to bed.

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im a parent and i reckon hell no.

I would have to say hardly, as time goes by I see more and more parents making stupid decisions, it will get to about 1 or 2 in the morning and kids will still be riding around on their bikes in the street, more and more parents seem to be happy about coming home drunk in front of their children and smoking some green in front of them too.

I am not saying there is anything wrong with getting drunk and having a smoke or two but I have never seen it as something you should do in front of your kids.

With all that said though that isn't parents on a whole, just the majority of the ones I know.

Luckily I had sensible parents who made good decisions for me and our family, but at the same time they did not make all my decisions for me, they gave me room to decide my own way of life, I made a few slip ups along the way (I believe that is just part of growing up) and my parents did not punish me greatly for them, but let me realize that what I was doing was stupid and was only going to end up ruining my health.

I'm having my struggle with my parents at the moment.

They are trying to do what's best for me.

I am trying to stop them.

They're "right" in that they have only their kids' best interest in mind. They want me to grow up "normal," meet someone and marry her, have kids, and raise them like they've risen me. As they see it, any straying from this course should be 'corrected'.

I myself simply don't want that life - at least, right now. I don't want kids. I don't want to be a productive member of society. I am doing what's "right" so that I won't have to become part of society that I admire less with each passing day. They are doing what's "right" so that I will have no choice but to become a member of this society.

Teenagers and parents have different goals. Neither of their goals are more valid than each others.' They simply have different goals in life. Teenagers want to find out if life is worth it, and parents are people who already have decided that it is, and have already forgotten what a tough decision that was.

I voted "Mostly", since I bet ALL the time, the parent's inner intentions are to make his son/daughter happy, it's just that they're not with our times(and we are not with their times too), so what we see as appropriate or cool, isn't to them and vice-versa. That's when bad-decision-making-that's-not-on-purpose happens.

Thankfully, I've avoided that problem having a Computer Engineer Father (R.I.P), and a very young Mom

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This might blow your mind... But parents are actually just people.

Nobody is always right.

Also, what's "right" for one person, isn't always "right" for someone else.

From my experience, no.

No, nobody is ever right, nobody ever makes all the right decisions. It just doesn't work that way.

Parents who think they are always right are dangerous to the well-being of their kids.

I couldn't agree more

A parent who is capable of saying to a child, "I'm sorry. I blew it." is a far better role model for that child than one who is always "right."

As a parent I think the best lesson I had was ....

Listen to your Kids

I'm not a parent but I see others thing with their kids and I think that parents need to adapt.

Parenting is a learning experience like anything in life. Kids respect humiltiy when it's required and appreciate respect in return. That said though, there are times when the old 'because I said so' is about the best answer you can come up with