User blog:AustinDR/Are the McBrides Good Parents

So after I had made a blog on Mr. and Mrs. Loud and whether or not they were bad parents, I ultimately felt that they were slightly in the middle; while they are well-meaning and genuinely care for their children, they are also flawed, and should at the very least enforce more strictness on their kids. So, with that being said, Weavillain made a blog about the McBrides and whether they could be seen as better parents when compared to the Loud parents. So, here's my thoughts on them.

For the most part, Harold and Howard do everything that a parent of a child should do. They are attentive to their son, Clyde, they meet his every demand, they have a flair of competence to them that Mr. and Mrs. Loud tend to lack. Everything seems to be in check. However, while I could hazardously say that they are effective parents... I do have a few issues with the parents. For one, they're just too nice. Now I am not saying that they should be irritable or mean; heck, they seem like nice people to hang out with. My concern is that because they tend to be too nice, they come off as passive. As such, they are susceptible of being taken advantage of. Take the episode "Attention Deficit."When Lynn Sr. and Rita are busily helping their daughters with their tasks, this leaves Lincoln trying to figure out how to finish his volcano project. So Clyde suggests that he get his dads to help him. They do so, and they go further than that in comparison to Lincoln's parents. But then Luna figures this out, and eventually all ten of the girls are having a blast at the McBride house. True, Howard and Harold do drive the girls back home after being driven crazy by them, but that was my main problem with the episode. They are too nice enough to not use the word "no" or anything of that sort. Instead, they try to meet all of the girls' demands, but they see that they couldn't as it's nearly impossible for any parent to raise eleven kids with ease. I'm not saying that they should not be nice, but I would suggest being more assertive.

The other chief problem with them is with Clyde himself. While they are attentive, I get the sense that they are a little too overprotective of Clyde. In their debut episode "Overnight Success," they give Lincoln a list of all Clyde's needs. Watching this, I was like "dude, it's only going to be one night; you're acting as if this will be the last time you'll ever see your son." And then Howard starts to have a breakdown over it. I mean, I understand that you love your son, but there's no need to make a scene. Really, sometimes they just greatly worry about their child. With that, I would at the very least suggest that they be a little more lenient towards their son. That doesn't mean that they should stop being protective of Clyde; all I'm saying is that they could exercise less control on him, and they could step in if something were to arise.

With that being said, what do you think? Are the McBrides good parents? Yes No Slightly in the middle Other