I have seen parents who have, God bless them, killed their children with kindness instead of reality. Give kids responsibility and let them shoulder it and the sooner the better. I tell young people to pause and just think before doing something as to what the results are going to be. A lot of youth think they can do practically anything they want before they are 18 because they won't have a record until then. But that is not true.
Records stay from day one.
To be the life of the party at 15 or 16, to be the show-off, can establish a reputation that takes years to erase. Take responsibility and practice it and don't blame everyone else for what you do. And I can speak from experience. I was no angel as a youth. There are still people over in Bena who can't figure out how I got to be sheriff.