Good Dad Bad Dad

It is very much like Shakespeare's 'to be or not to be'. I thought parenting will be nothing quite like it. But it is. At some point you want to ask yourself if you are a good dad or a bad dad?' I just did. I spent hours thinking about what it is like to see things from a teenager's point of view. I took a piece of paper and wrote down everything that could make sense to me or to anyone else. All possibilities and probabilities played out in front of me and I don't know when I went to sleep.
However, in the final analysis of things, I found out that in this world, to be a good Dad means you have to know just one word; yes. If you know any other word, lose it. It is redundant.
'Dad I want an IPhone?' asks your teenage son or daughter.
Yes,' you reply fast as you can, and produce the phone at the end of the sentence. God forbid, if you don't. The consequences will be dire. You would be informed that you were never a good parent. You didn't do enough for the family. You just say 'no' to everything. You are a do-no-good Dad [that is like you are a huge let down].
If you happen to be concerned about the poor show in the academics and ask your kid why was that so despite the tuition etc? You are way out of line to have asked this silly question. You will be reminded that you have never been concerned or else the grades would not be so poor. In short, it is all your fault...yet again!
It doesn't stop at IPhone. This thing transcends into every facet of life. Buy your kid a laptop that astronauts use since anything less will not suffice. The game is on. Always. But dont ever talk about gaming since you will be immediately 'terminated' like in one of those games they play. In short, everything is ok that brings the grades down. Hot new gadgets are must things to have. Dad is almost always not understanding or good enough unless he has only one word in his vocabulary, that is Yes!
Many of us know about the book, Rich Dad Poor Dad but what we don't know fully well is if you are not a rich dad, you are just not good enough. That makes me the poor bad dad. I can live with that.