Parenting is about making the best choices you can for your children, not simply making choices for your children. And I never said to give them everything they want.

The fact is, the dude is intentionally trying to socially isolate their kids to ‘protect them’ which is textbook helicopter/overcontrolling parent and deeply fucks kids up for life. S/He literally outright says they want their kids to cleanly break from ‘friendship drama’ and the literal outside world. That’s… words cannot describe how concerning that sounds.