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“Permissiveness is like saying to a kid, ‘No, you’re not going to do it and that’s semi-final,’” he said.  “It’s letting your child do whatever he likes on the premise that if he gets killed doing it, he won’t do it again.  These days you can give your teenager a car.  You can give him an allowance.  You can give him your brand-new sports jacket.  But you cannot tell him to ‘have a good time.’  He will glare at you and say, ‘Don’t tell me what to do.’”

Reader’s Digest, January, 1982, page 76