i let my kids play with knives.
i also buy my kids mac and cheese in a box
i'm obviously very good at parenting. people ask me "how do you do it?" and i can't tell them in short. so i made a website to teach all the TERRIBLE PARENTS how to parent good.
my first word of advice, never check your child's grades. if they bring a report card to you, burn it. in my household, my children (zenith and quazar) get up to all sorts of wacky situations. zenith nearly got arrested!!!* at this speed he'll be a fine young chap.
now, quazar doesn't do way too much, (y'know, since he's 3) but i've made him do the following