[Mr.Coffee]

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That's right and that's because life is a series of taking risks. A series of calculated risks, and being a parent is about protecting your young but teaching them about life's risks and how to make good decisions about those risks. And the opportunity costs of those risks. So that when they grow into adults they are able to carry on the same traits to their kids. You cannot control every aspect of your kids life, or you'd be chaining them up in the basement and you would be shipped off (rightfully) to prison.

That's why it is colossally stupid to suggest that you could (or should, but not many people are suggesting should) control every aspect of a your child's life. You people realize that a child is still an autonomous human being right? That it is not a remote controlled car? That inevitably in life there are variables? Variables with different risk profiles that can be controlled and not controlled.