Who’s down for a trad-dad comeback? 🙋 @Real Time with Bill Maher

The trad dad needs to make a comeback. Just back to the dad who believes that because I said so is a perfectly legitimate answer to any question a child may have. Just back to the dad who would never say anything as stupid as my kid is my hero. Or where do you want to eat dinner? Or one more story and then we really have to start thinking about going to bed, okay? Trad dads don't negotiate. They say you will apologize to your mother. Don't make me turn this car around. Some things just happen because life is unfair. Clean your room, be quiet, the adults are talking and it's not all about you. In America for generations now, since World War II basically, parents have wanted to be their kid's pals, not their parents. Their biggest yearning was that their kid love them. Not a good idea. Your biggest yearning is that you act honorably and then make it easy for them to honor you. Whether they love you when they're 12 or not should not be your overriding concern. If your aim is always to be loved by your child, you will be a lousy parent, definitionally, because you won't do what it takes to make a good person out of your child, which may often involve your not being liked at that time.