if you take the huxtable parent and blend them with the kyle parent you get a perfect blend of over the top and under the edge parenting that you can wish for your own family child rear skill . the best part about each show be that the parent do not come off a pompous self righteous upper class know it alls but at the same time they be not the stereotypical under educate parent who be constantly be bamboozle and disrespect by their child . my kid be 20 and 16 and 6 while just about the same age a the kyle kid and i see so much of their situation mirror my own experience with my family . the silliness that they indulge in only go to show that when you have love in your family you do not have to take yourself too seriously to keep your household together and have fun with your kid .