What Teachers and Police Officers Would Like Parents to Know
10. If your teenager doesn’t understand that no means no, it may already be too late.
9. Tattoos are for bikers and people who no longer have to look for a job.
8. Body piercings are for other people’s kids. We use them to feel better about our own parenting skills.
7. Telling your teenager that there are no winners and losers in sports is wrong. Sports are a metaphor for life and sometimes life punches you in the face.
6. Unless your kid is paying rent and taxes, they are not entitled to a locked bedroom door.
5. If your kid gets a ticket for a moving violation, use it as an opportunity to teach them about following society’s rules. Have them pay for the ticket with their own money or through work equity around the house.
4. If your teenager is 6 foot and 200 hundred pounds of muscle and makes you cower in fear, don’t be surprised when a teacher or police officer provides a life lesson they should have gotten at home. On second thought, that life lesson may come even if your teen is 4'11 and 100 pounds.
3. Despite what you may have heard, you are responsible for raising your kids. Schools are not day cares and police officers are not baby sitters.
2. If you use drugs around your kids, don’t be surprised when they use drugs. Also, don’t call the police when they start stealing your stuff to buy drugs.
- If you refuse to raise your kids properly, society will eventually do it for you. We call these institutions prisons.
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