Are you a liberal parent?

Hollywood stars Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith have confessed to allowing their children to dictate the terms of their lives. The couple does not believe in punishment and say as far as their parenting style goes, they are pretty much “liberal”…

44 year old Will says he and Jada want to teach their children, 14 tear old Jaden and 12 year old Willow, the rights and wrongs of life by allowing them to make their own mistakes instead of using traditional disciplines such as sending them to their room and taking away their luxuries for the day.

“We generally don’t believe in punishment. From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, and all he has to do is be able to explain why what he did was the right thing for his life,” Smith has told The Sun newspaper.

A few days ago, Jaden surprised his dad by saying he wants to move out into his own home when he turns 15 in July but speaking on The Ellen DeGeneres Show with his father by his side, the teenager backtracked, saying he will stay with his parents for as long as he can since “everything in their house is free”.

In addition to not believing in discipline, the Smiths also encourage a large degree of independence in their teen children—both have already enjoyed great success in their fledging careers, Jaden as an actor and wannabe rapper and Willow as a singer—causing some critics to brand the kids "highly precocious."

Willow, 12, has already had a couple of hit records, and big brother Jaden, 14, has landed some big movie roles

What do you think of Will and Jada’s parenting style? Do you have rules which you expect your children to live by?