Editorial

Parenting must be so daunting. Imagine being in charge of an entire person, one who doesn't know how to do anything. As a parent, you have to teach a child to stand and walk and talk, to make decisions for themselves. As a parent, you then have to teach yourself to stand by as they make mistakes and hopefully learn from those, while you know for a fact that if only they listened to you, if only they did things exactly the way you told them to do, the children would be so much better off. Or so it may seem.
The thing with strict, overbearing parenting is that it makes complete sense from the parents' point of view. But weird as it may be to have to say this out loud, children are people. They have their own points of view, and the sad thing is that way too many parents don't want to respect this fact.  

Parenting is a ridiculously important aspect of the human experience, it's a skill that is not looked at closely enough when people talk about families and the future. They really should.