I think it is very important for parents in 2012 to "parent" their children. The parenting is a very important thing for your children. When you are young if you do not learn right from wrong you will never know how to behave. You will act and speak the same around adults as you are around your friends which is without manners. You know what i am talking about, you know who the parents that didn't "parent." These kids back talk to people they don't know and don't give adults the respect they deserve. These are the kids that have no work ethnic they do as little as possible when they are working and they always have a reason they can't do something. When I am older I am going to be a strict parent when it comes to manners and school. Because by me being strict it will teach the kids what is good and bad. I will help him to have good work ethnics at his or her job. Parenting is very important for children, letting kids run around without supervision and letting them make their own mistakes is a bad idea. What if it is a very bad mistake like in "To Kill A Mockingbird" when Mr. Nathan Radley shot at Jem that is not a mistake i want my kids to learn by themselves. That is a mistake that could have killed them. Even though nowadays people aren't racist and don't shoot at people near their houses. I could be a mistake like not looking when they cross a street and get hit by a car. But everyone in the world has a different opinion on "parenting" and whether or not you want to parent you child is up to you. But for me I believe that parenting is a very important thing that many people aren't doing which is causing kids to misbehave. That is why I think that it is important for Parents in 2012 to "parent" there kids. because it teaches them manners as in how to behave around others and work ethnics as in how hard you work and weather or not you follow directions closely. That is why parenting is important.