Andy Griffith nails it.

Anyone who is a half decent parent understands that children sometimes need to be protected from their own short sighted decision making. By indulging the children you abdicate your responsibility as a parent.

If the kid came home with the idea that the Klan was a pretty right on about a thing or two, your responsibility as a parent is to dissuade them from that notion. But for some reason if your girl decides she’s a boy, you have to take that as your marching orders is ridiculous.

Anyway, Andy Griffith says it better than me.