Times have changed...
Parents sometimes are dead wrong.. and if they hold on to the
nonsense of "because I am your elder, I am right", it will always
lead to disaster.
Look at our nation's lea-duhs. They play "parents" and we, the
citizens, those who they are supposed to serve, are treated as
little children who can never know better than them.
The result is a nation full of people who will just follow..
resigned to just following orders else they will be punished.
In a family, if the child is not heard, and reasoned with, and
forced to follow the words of the parents without question, the
child will grow up unable to think for himself if the child does
not have a strong inborn character. Anything spirit in the child
would be broken and the rebuilding may take a lifetime.. some never
repair the damage. They will never be able to stand up for anything
that is right, even if in their hearts, they know they are right..
they would just surrender.
That, would be a total failure of a parent.
