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[quote=Anonymous]OP, don't try to be friends with your kids until they are grown ups. Please, they need parents. You can treat children with respect, while still completely being the parent. Tell them that now you are responsible for caring for them and teaching them everything you can for them to function well as adults, and that you are looking forward to being friends when they're grown. That's what I've always told my kids, especially when they push back against rules.

I have three kids, and two are still teens. The adult is late twenties, and yes, we are friends and it's delightful. The teen years are the trickiest, as kids give you a lot of push/pull, and you have to treat them respectfully, as young adults, while still slamming down the discipline/consequences hammer as needed. They'll act like toddlers one minute, adults the next. They'll do stupid things. But once you get through that and they're legally adults, always treat them as adults, even when they still need your advice.

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