Dear Parents,
Please do not let your children rule your roosts.
Assert your life-given authority when they misbehave, as virtually all children will. When they are given firm boundaries, they will feel secure, even though they may constantly push against them.
Do not feel that you always have to 'explain' to them or 'justify' your decisions and
rules. Some, maybe most, children can't deal with a lot of 'reasons'.
They certainly don't know why they do what they do a lot (maybe, most) of the time. My mother had a phrase for that sort of behaviour, which was "naughty impulses", (not to describe me, I hasten to add!)
Sometimes (maybe, often), "...because I say so" is good enough.
