I'd like to take the opportunity to ask something here if I may, what are parent's thoughts about not letting their kids doing things they did as teenagers?
If it was me telling my son not do things I did at his age, I would feel sort of hypocritical.
I know it comes with the job, you are a dad now, I certainly wouldn't want my son smoking and drinking and having bad friends like I did, but still...
I have only one friend old enough to have teenage kids, and his answer to this is "because I say so".
I'm not judging here, just curious, how do you reconcile that? Does this "but I did the same" idea cross your mind at some point? Or is it something else maybe? Not that I'm planning on having kids, at 33 I'm still pretty much an infant you know :), but it couldn't hurt to be prepared. :P