[Margaret Pilkington]

none of them do, but yet generations of parents have turned out children who have been a credit to them.....How?...by knowing where their children are!
By doing things with them! By not just giving 'things'...but giving of themselves!
By teaching their youngsters that no-one owes them anything! By making sure that they earned the 'rights' that the young people seem to know so much about! By teaching them that ALL actions have consequences...and some consequences are NASTY, and to be avoided. By letting them know that parents do not want to be killjoys, but want to share their experience of life so that the mistakes can be minimised.