Rules of Life, The, 4th Edition

RULE 85

Your role as a child

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:

• To behave impeccably with them.
• To look after them if that’s what they want/need.
• To back off if that’s what they want/need.
• To listen to ...