Being Friends With Your Kids:.........Anything Wrong?

The motivation behind this post is this statement by FLYMAMA:

'And besides, u say dat u r a friend of ur kids, dat is where a lot of white ppl make mistakes"


Now I ask, what is wrong with being friends with your kids?

Does being friends spoil your kids?

Arent there ways parents can be friends with their kids and yet very strict?

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Posted: at 15-03-2011 04:48 PM (13 years ago) | Hero

@DP of course not my father was everything good to me and by his example i learnt how to relate to people around me, do unto others what u wish others to do to u

Posted: at 15-03-2011 04:53 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Exactly!

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Posted: at 15-03-2011 04:54 PM (13 years ago) | Hero

thats a very bad way of bribging up children cos u r teaching dem to b hard heartened and i have seen such children turn merciless criminals and so on some deal with dier parents when they r older or even kill them

Posted: at 15-03-2011 04:59 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING FRIENDS WITH YOUR KIDS BUT THERE SHOULD BE CLEAR CUT OF DISCIPLINE. IT IS GOOD TO SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH KIDS AND ALSO A TIME TO BE STRICT WHEN THE NEEDS ARISE THOUGH U CAN MARK OUT A TIME TABLE FOR IT. A TIME FOR THE KIDS TO PLAY ALONE, A TIME TO PLAY WITH DADDY OR MUMMY OR BOTH IF IT IS CONVENIENT. A TIME TO STUDY WITH THEM AT HOME, A TIME TO EAT WITH THE KIDS, A TIME TO PRAY FOR THEM AND A TIME FOR THE KIDS TO SLEEP.

Posted: at 15-03-2011 05:10 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Nice comments here..............for the records, my dad was my best friend........my dad never hit me even once, he rather spoke with his eyes...........

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Posted: at 15-03-2011 05:16 PM (13 years ago) | Hero

how many children  do u have then 

Posted: at 15-03-2011 05:28 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

i concur this..


i'm a friend to my Dad as well, but it doesn't mean we don't have boundaries.

Posted: at 15-03-2011 05:30 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac

abeg I dey laugh at Pholake's answer to SBI's comment oo

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Posted: at 15-03-2011 05:32 PM (13 years ago) | Hero

 

Posted: at 15-03-2011 05:35 PM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac