Once you reach adulthood, you realize the "cool parents" in school were just the ones that didn't give a damn

EDIT: To clarify, I don't mean the "cool parents" who host the parties, buy beer for 15 year olds, or set bad examples (necessarily). I mean the parents who buy their kids whatever they want, don't punish them, etc (which seems cool at the time). There's a fine line that parents have to straddle between letting their kids grow up and keeping them in line. But in grade school, the "cool parents," at least in my experiences, were just the ones who didn't care.