All their friends are experts on parenting and constantly dropping hints on how you can do the job better. Some experts tell us that we are to treat our children as equals. Others tells us to treat our children as adults and reason things out with them. Others are talking about children's rights. There is a battle boiling about what constitutes acceptable discipline.
Some people say that any type of physical discipline constitutes abuse.
Some people equate love with permissiveness and wonder what happened when they wake-up with uncontrollable teens. Just because you can have children doesn't mean that you will automatically understand how to raise them. Some people believe in the numeric approach. They say that seven is the number of perfection so by the time the seventh child arrives they will know how to be perfect parents raising the perfect child. It seems that many parents prefer the trial and error method.