@Cluffalo One of the lines I use the most is, "I am not one of your little friends." Another mother, whose son is my son’s age and practiced similar parenting, suggested that if you don't enforce stricter parenting when your children are young, you may have to do so when they are older.
@Cluffalo I raised my son this way, challenged by my parents to do so because they regretted how they raised me, and now in my son’s teens I find myself saying all of these things wishing that I would not have look down on how I was raised.