Rights?

In reply to Yimin's post - It's Just ME, i'll have my say here too, lol.

Quoted from "Creating a SUCCESS environment" by Keith DeGreen:

Calvin's wife, Cathy was having problems with their two strapping teenage boys. They were good kids, and generally well behaved, but they had one shortcoming: they swore too much around the house.

Cathy went to the child psychologist at the school to ask her advice, "You must put your foot down," the psychologist said. "Let those two boys know, in no uncertain terms, that you simply will not permit their use of profanity around the house!"

"Right," Cathy thought. "From now on I'm going to take control of the situation!"

"The next morning, the two boys stampeded downstairs to breakfast. First the big, strapping, 16-year-old sat himself down at the breakfast table.

"Ma," he said, "give me some of them damn cornflakes."

Cathy was just a little thing, but without getting angry, she walked up to the 16-year-old, wound up, and belted him. The boy flew off the chair, his his head against the wall, and fell to the floor. His eyes were as big as saucers. He didn't know what happened.

Then, remaining poised, Cathy turned to her almost-as-large 15-year-old son, who was seating himself at the breakfast table. "And what would you like for breakfast?" she asked.

He leaned forward across the table, looked at his older brother down on the floor, looked at his mother and said, "I don't know, but I sure as hell don't want any of them damn cornflakes!"

Children of any age possess at least three inherent rights:
- The right to grow as children,
- The right to learn, and
- The right to love and be loved.

The right to grow as children
One of the saddest phenomena imaginable - and one that we've all witnessed from time to time - is the sight of a parent who expects too much from his child, too soon. Children don't necessarily understand things the first time they are explained to them. Their lack of understanding is not a function of any lack of intelligence; it is simply a reflection of their lack of experience.

The child who must be shown two, three, or four times how to cut his meat properly is not necessarily inconsiderate, uncaring, or dull. Children have a right to grow as children, individually, at their own speed. They have a right to expect that adults understand how hard it is to learn things for the first time.

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Parents should spend time educating their children, spending their time to show affection, instead of comparing them to - say, their neighbour's son or daughter.

Thats what i think personally anyway..

Thank god my parents understand me and love me the correct way.


Quoted from Yimin:

Live for your life.

Quoted from Megan:

You don't have to be popular and get everyone to notice you, what really matters is being yourself. When someone's digging your dirt, note to yourself: SO WHAT?!

*P/S: The book "Creating a SUCCESS Environment" was published in 1979, lol.. Belonged to my father after he attended a motivational course. The book covers everything - everything from life, work, families, and etc. Still halfway reading it myself yet. A perfect motivational book it is.