Chapter 50 Parental privileges: no child's permission required

In some families, children have the right to forbid their parents to come and go, and parents need to get the consent of several children to go out at night.Some parents don't go to the cinema or the theater because they fear war will break out when they get home. How parents live their lives, without the approval or consent of their children.If a child cries because the parents are going out at night, don't condemn the child's fear, but don't obey the child's wishes either.We can understand and sympathize with his desire not to be left with a nanny, but there is no need to get a license to entertain from a child.We can sympathetically say to a crying child, "I know you don't want us to go out tonight, you want us to be with you, but your mom and I are going to a movie tonight (or see a friend, or dinner party, or to a dance, etc.)."

The content of the child's objection, request, or threat can be ignored.Our answer should be firm and kind: "You want me to be with you, but this time I should go out."