Good and bad parenting

Bad parenting
Example: teasing your child because he decides to support the non-British tennis player in a recent late night, roof-covered tussle.  This is made extra-bad if you threaten not to condemn other children who might choose to give your child a good hiding because he is supporting the formally unknown Swiss underdog. Warning: this behaviour can send your child sobbing into his bedroom not to mention eliciting lowered eyebrows all round for setting a bad example.

Good parenting
In the middle of a hot, sticky work day, remembering that for their homework, your child needs to review a leaflet "persuading you go somewhere," thus you struggle to a place of interest in order to ferret out leaflets promoting various attractions. And without being reminded too.

OK, so the good doesn't quite cancel out the bad but I'm doing my best.