Parenting

When we were discussing parenting in class and he was talking about preference vs principle it made me think of my parent's and the way they parented my brothers and I. My mom has has to tell my younger brother's teachers over and over to "pick their battles" with him, which I associated with what we talked about in class. She realizes that there are things that just don't matter and when approached end up causing more of an issue than what was originally going on.