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Rules of Everything
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Rules of Everything

by Richard Templar
June 2022
Beginner
272 pages
4h 10m
English
Pearson Education
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RULE 3

There’s a balance between the right to respect, and tolerance

Rule to break: ‘We all have an absolute right to be respected’

My children like to wind each other up – at least when they’re feeling frustrated or under the weather or tired. It’s what siblings do. Many years ago, we foolishly made it a ‘rule’ at home that they weren’t allowed to do this. If they knew that what they were doing was frustrating one of their siblings, they were to stop. Now, that might seem reasonable to you – it did to me – but of course kids have an irritating habit of subverting rules.

It wasn’t long before I’d overhear them saying to each other, ‘Stop whistling, it’s winding me up. You’re not allowed to wind me up’. Or ‘It really irritates me when you leave ...

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ISBN: 9781292432137