 | Because it is the most character-building two-letter word In the English
language, children have the right to hear their parents say "No” at least
three times a day. |
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Children have the right to find out early in their lives that their parents
don’t exist to make them happy, but to offer them the opportunity to learn the
skills they will need to eventually make themselves happy. |
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Children have a right to scream all they want over the decisions their parents
make, albeit their parents have the right to confine said screaming to certain
areas of their homes. |
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Children have the right to find out early that their parents care deeply for
them but don’t give a hoot what their children think about them at any given
moment in time. |
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Because it is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, children
have the right to hear their parents say, "Because I said so” on a regular and
frequent basis. |
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Because it is the most character-building activity a child can engage in,
children have the right to share significantly in doing household chores. |
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Every child has the right to discover early in life that he isn’t the center
of the universe (or his family or his parents’ lives), that he isn’t a big
fish in a small pond, that he isn’t the Second Coming and that he’s not even
in the total scheme of things very important at all —no one is — so as to
prevent him from becoming an insufferable brat. |
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Children have the right to learn to be grateful for what they receive;
therefore, they have the right to receive all of what they truly need and very
little of what they simply want. |
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Children have the right to learn early in their lives that obedience to
legitimate authority is not optional, that there are consequences for
disobedience and that said consequences are memorable and, therefore,
persuasive. |
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Every child has the right to parents who love him/her enough to make sure
he/she enjoys all of the above rights. |
