We can be friends with our parents when we are playing or just horsing around and that’t ban be a good fun thing but they still are our parents first and foremost. I’d say I played with my Dad or Mom, not my friends. Friends were just little wise-asses like me.
Soccer moms want to be there friends and dress up their daughters just like them, hang out at the mall together and maybe even grab dinner at Applebees. In moderation for special occassions, very cool. Every damned day? Bizzare.
True.
I am friends with my son, and we do much together, but the entire father/son relationship, with all its traditional foundations still exists and will never change.
Similarly, my boss and I are friends, but the traditional employer/employee relationship exists and there are somethings I would never do.
Lastly,
The Lord was a friend of Abraham and the Lord is our friend too (through Jesus) but that friendship does not give me license to treat God in any lessor way.
Yeah, I hear you.
My parents have always been, my parents, and I have great respect for them. Parent’s who try to be the “friend” generally end up having more problems with their children, then parents who know their place as the authority. Good grief, if we had more parents like that, we wouldn’t have as many messed up kids.
I agree with you, it is bizarre. I’m thankful for my parents being my parents, and not my friend;that would be just be weird