Parenting Adolescents

I think my parents did a wonderful job parenting me. I always listened to them and when I did mess up I already knew I would be grounded and I would pay for it. Thinking back now, if I would of turned out to be one of the wilder kids, they probably wouldn't of known what to do. They couldn't of stopped me from going out. They could of grounded me, but if I was that wild I would have just not listened and went out anyways. Thats why I think they did so good getting to me when I was little. We both know that I wasn't the perfect little angel, but I did try to always listen to them. I know they know best but sometimes that just conflicts with what I was doing at the time. Their flexibility and connection fit right into how I thought and acted. My parents also blocked a lot of the channels on the tv that they thought I shouldn't be watching, like MTV and channels similar. They actually ended cutting all of our channels down to only 1-16, just so I would want to get out of the house more and be active outside. I guess most of what they tried to do worked out for the best though.