Your approach is to assume the parent is right, and that his rules must be obeyed. This is not a way to find good ways to proceed on any issue. A better approa

Your approach is to assume the parent is right, and that his rules must be obeyed. This is not a way to find good ways to proceed on any issue. A better approach is to recognize that everyone makes mistakes, and the important thing is to institute policies that correct errors. That means rather than spending all your time making your rules be obeyed by any means necessary, there needs to be mechanism so that if you make a mistake you will be corrected (at least if anyone, including your child, is aware of it). This could be called "philosophically enlightened parenting" and it's better because it takes into account what we know about how knowledge is created (including knowledge of what to do in particular situations or how to solve problems in one's life including undesired behavior by one's child). That it doesn't hurt is nice too.