One of my kids asked me this today.  I’m not really sure what brought it on either, which is the odd thing.  I usually try to keep track of the things going on, what they’re watching, what they’re playing, so I know where this stuff comes from when it invariably pops up.  This one, I missed the ball somewhere.

So I asked him “Well, do *you* think I’m a grown-up?”

That, apparently, wasn’t something he’d considered.  It took a few moments, and a few versions of the “thinking face” he gets when his paradigm gets stretched a little.  The he responded with, “Kinda.  But you’re more fun than lots of grownups.”

Now here, parents, is a moral dilemma :)  Being the “fun” parent usually means you’re slacking off somewhere, it means you’re failing to enforce discipline in one arena or another in comparison to your kid’s friends parents.  So now I’m stuck.  Do I want to go out of my way to be a “good” parent?  i.e. a less “fun” parent?  Or do I just keep on doing what I’m doing and hoping we don’t all end up on Oprah when they’re 18?

Damn, that’s a toughie