The Different Roles of the Parents In the third stage, it is the stage of adulthood. Then parents shift their main role from teachers to friends. At this moment, the children not only need encouragement, they also hope to obtain the understanding from their parents, thus the communication between parents and children is definitely necessary, in this way, the children will open their mind to their parents and the gap will be narrowed. Besides, parents ought to give enough freedom to their children. As the children get into the trouble or suffer from painful things. Parents only provide the firm shoulder and comfort hem that everything will be fine soon, which is enough. All in all, the healthy relationship between parents and children is good for the different stages of children's growth. One of my friends tells me a metaphor that parents are like the wheels of bicycles and children are riders. When the wheels are unrepairable, the children have nothing to rely on and they have to walk alone one day. Therefor, the parents ought to untie the children in the right time.