Still, whenever Ariel goes to a party, she can expect her mother to call. My whole life is my children. You don't trust me,' and the parents just wilt. She'll pop into the party, ''maybe twice,'' she said, to check it out herself. Ariel said the overwhelming concern makes her feel loved not smothered.
Most parents give alcohol to their teens.
Parents who say they're too busy to put that much effort into steering their children toward intelligent choices are copping out of their most important job, Gail Goebel said. Though she was a full-time mom during her daughters' early childhoods, she and their father divorced eight years ago and she had to go to work, first as a bank teller, then as an interior designer. You can't clean your house as much. You have to mow the lawn at midnight, and then the neighbors complain,'' Gail Goebel said. Every night, we sat at the dinner table.