The 3 Golden Rules of Parenting
First things first: Sanjaya's gone. Can you believe it? Now all there is to look forward to for the remainder of this season's "American Idol" is a bunch of in-tune, un-cute, coiffeur-challenged, big-voiced belter-outers. Bo-ring.
In other news, parents bribe their kids! And parenting experts warn that this tactic comes with a price! (For me, that would be cost of another Polly Pocket.)
Here's what the "experts" -- and the article -- forget: It all evens out at the end. Because, along with bribery, proper parenting, as I've learned, also involves blackmail and trickery. It's like this:
- Do this and you get that.
- Don't do this, and you don't get that.
- I have no idea what happened to [object of annoying obsession now hidden in closet].
So don't worry about the entitlement mentality, because as any kid knows, what is given can just as easily be denied. Or mysteriously disappear.
April 19, 2007
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