• Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to be respected by your child. It gives you the responsibility to be respectful of your child.
• Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to control your child. It gives you the responsibility to control yourself.
• Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to be heard. It gives you the responsibility to listen. 
• Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to command, demand, belittle, criticize, ridicule, or shame your child. It gives you the responsibility to communicate calmly, kindly, and respectfully with your child. 
• Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to hurt, hit, slap, spank, yank, ignore, isolate, intimidate, coerce, threaten, throw things at, yell at, withhold treasured possessions from, or invade the privacy of your child, even if that’s how you were treated as a child. It gives you the responsibility to learn better, do better, be better for your child. 
• Being a parent doesn’t give you the right to bully your child. It gives you the responsibility not to.    

It is the job of each generation to solve more problems than they create and to lift up the next generation to be better than the last. Simply repeating the past does neither. 

© L.R.Knost

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