What is it like to have super cool parents in India?

I think it will be great but it again puts a different kind of stupid pressure on kids as well as parents (if at all they feel so). When we were growing up, one of my friends' parents were very cool. They would not interfere in their kids lives, when we were small, they had a manager who would take kids to tuitions, games classes or activities classes. Parents would also accompany them but not all the time. Later, in college, their parents would call up the son, and would say, 'Listen, the weather was nice, so we came for a drive and it is so nice up in the Hills, we will come back tomorrow and would say in a hotel." All this was so cool to sound. But, I saw that their parents have a very elite small group of friends and would not gel with regular parents and regular parents would look them at with such scathing eyes. I mean I don't know what all happened in their personal lives or they ever even bothered to think what others are thinking about them, but our parent's meeting with other parents would always be, "How can they behave like this in front of kids?" They would not mind having drinks in front of their kids, so this was such a controversial thing for others to digest. But as a kid, I would say, I simply adored my friend's super cool parents. They were good to talk to. Treated us well, sometimes, have long discussions over some topic and would treat us like adults. So, from a kid's perspective I would say it would be so cool to have cool parents. And I think if our society will be less judgemental and let them be free from phrases like, "This should be done this way and that way', then all of us can be cool.
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