Socrates despaired of the morals and behavior and future of the Athenian adolescents he observed cavorting in their sandals and sashes.
Different temperaments require different parenting styles.
Some, like my older sister, are easily raised. They not only adopt the parental values and morals, they anticipate them. One day, with my sister about 12, and the whole family in the car, my father stopped at a liquor store to get a bottle of sherry for company coming that evening. Others test the boundaries. They are driven to individuate.