How long ? As long as parents stop interfering with their own understanding of parenting and put themselves between the kids and the world they explore.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde)

I'm working on unschooling myself, unlearning the pressure that others have put on education. What we think is worth teaching, is sometimes just a pile of old restricted thinking, been carried forward from institution's that believed there is a "way" to teach kids.

As a result of that a lot of adults now are just big kids trapped in an adult body.. By pushing kids to become adults too quickly, we bury their childhood which is then incomplete and stop us making that transition and allowing us to grow. A lot of adults are stuck in that teenage mentality.
how many woman have seen trying to hodl to their teens by how they dress, and interact with one another ? how many men over 30 are stuck in a child's mind when it comes to relationship or trying to speak to women ?

By not letting our kids be kids, we preventing them from maturing naturally, we passively watch schools and social media turn them in to servants of the system, smart enough only to run the machines.

In my opinon it is best to let our children make mistakes and focus more on working on ourselves, to stay calm even if things gets crazy sometimes, give kids the freedom they need, to foreseen that one day they will make a healthy change from childhood to an open minded adult. Carrying within them, the understanding that children are the forefathers of men.