'Talking to them like adults': Parents consider things that may be considered bad parenting, but are actually good parenting

No two parents are exactly the same, and everyone (the childless included) seems to have an opinion on which way is the best way to be raising kids. There are many different parenting methods out there, all of which have the potential to annoy and upset certain groups of people just because it isn't the way that they would want to do it. 

Nonetheless, this didn't stop Reddit from attempting to answer the question "What is considered bad parenting but it's actually good parenting?". Unsurprisingly, Redditors were ready with plenty of different examples of things they thought were right that they suspected others might not like so much. While some of these may not seem so controversial, there are moms and dads who definitely wouldn't want to adhere to them. There isn't necessarily a one-size-fits-all approach that can be taken with parenting, it can help to have some basic universal ground rules.

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