Furthermore, parents should not control your children too much. According to, Mark Merrill., “ When our children are younger, we are in complete control of just about everything they do what they eat, what they wear, where they go and who they are with. As they get older, our children want to make more and more decisions for themselves and don’t want mom or dad always telling them what to do. We need to show our children that they will have more control over their decision-making to the extent that we can trust them to make wise decisions. Trust is earned over time.”