Parents Need to Tell Kids: You're Not the Boss of Me! takes

Amid the long twilight struggle that is parenthood, savvy mothers and fathers know their kids always seek to alter the balance of power. Unfortunately, parents sometimes lack the will to resist. Thus, a Time/CNN poll finds 35 percent of parents confessing they’re more permissive with their children than their own parents were with them. Many more (68 percent) describe their kids as “spoiled.” Among adults in general, 48 percent believe kids these days have “too much influence over everyday family decisions.”