Fuck's sake.
Why have kids if you're not going to let them experience a little bit of independence? It's stunting their emotional growth and doing far more damage to them long term. Why have kids at all if all you're going to do is shield them from the potential horrors of the world?

There's a difference between protecting kids and wrapping them in cotton wool. A generation of socially inept, emotionally stunted fucktards, with no concept of how to operate in the real world, that's what you're creating.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 4 Jul 2009, 12:49, Reply)