"I would be a great parent says a teenage boy,
The kid would just be allowed to roam around
and learn for itself—"
he says it would be good for the kid to trip
and fall because the experience would make
sure the kid doesn’t fall the same way again.
"It makes them stronger to do things alone" he says.
Just as a kid falls off a bicycle
or burns its hand on a stove,
the kid would be smarter for it
and will remember its lessons better,
"because if I talk at it, it won’t remember a thing
and won’t give a care about what I’m trying to say—
it’s best to sit back and merely guide."

"I would be a totally better mother" the teenage girl says,
"the child would hate me sometimes, especially
while in comparison to that ‘care-free’ father, but it's worth it."
She says the child would probably constantly yell at her
for being over-protective, bossy, or for messing up
everything by getting ‘too involved’.
"But it makes them stronger to have a little help" she says.
When the child falls off the bicycle
or burns its hand on a stove,
a child can’t always get back up on their own—
they can’t know how to treat a scrape yet.
How can a child learn if they’re not taught a tiny bit first.
"Of course I’ll be trying my absolute best, but I don’t think
that’ll be enough to make the child care about me,
listen to me, or love me, but in the end I want it to succeed."