A Child's Guide to Parents

A Child's Guide to Parents

(Ogden Nash)

 

The wise child handles father and mother

By playing one against the other.

 

Don't! Cries this parent to the tot;

The opposite parent asks, Why not?

 

Let baby listen, nothing loth,

And work impartially on both.

 

In clash of wills, do not give in;

Good parents are made by discipline.