One of the best examples of parenting I’ve read involves a man who is now in his early forties. He said, “I felt bad for a lot of my friends when I was growing up. Their parents were pretty tough on them when it came to grades in school. Their parents were crushed when they came home with B’s instead of A’s. They got grounded whenever their grades weren’t at the top. What was funny was that the more the parents grounded the kids, the more they rebelled. Some of them even got fu…