Parenting advice........................

 ...............................from Louis L'Amour:

     From earliest childhood she had been taught to accept responsibility, and to make her own decisions and abide by them.  "Every youngster wants to be grown-up," her father had said, "but the difference between a child and an adult is not years, but rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions.

-as culled from his book, Flint