So, you’re a grown-up now and probably don’t recognize yourself as a child. But you are still a child, although you’ll get strange looks if you park in a ‘parent and child’ space if you happen to go shopping with your mother or father.
Until both of your parents have passed on and you have been promoted, so to speak, you remain a child. And you have a responsibility. You have a duty – now you are a Rules Player – to be courteous, thoughtful, patient and co-operative towards your parents.
Yes, yes, I know they drive you mad but from now on you have a role and it is simply this:
And why will you do all this? Because they gave you life, brought you up. Yes, yes, I know they made mistakes along the way but you forgive them all of them (see Rule 76) and you turned out fine. Oh yes you did.
Parents deserve decent treatment when they get old and need attention and someone to listen to them and take them seriously – and they make great baby/dog sitters (and usually free as well).
YOU HAVE A DUTY
TO BE COURTEOUS,
THOUGHTFUL AND
CO-OPERATIVE TOWARDS
YOUR PARENTS