David Elmore

Children Have Rights David Elmore

If we are ever going to have a free and great society, we have GOT to change the way we treat children. Most parents, frankly, are turning their kids into monsters or brats or obedient woosies. They don't respect their kids' minds or ability to know what they want to do in their lives. The parents hover and "guide" and prod and poke and annoy -- turning their kids into anxious people who are never "centered". This book aims to stop all that and help parents create wonderful, kick-ass kids. The least honored and protected group of people on Earth for millennia has been children. Yet they have the same individual rights as us adults from the moment they take their first breath -- to find their own meaning in life, to pursue their pirate adventures. The only thing they MUST do is the same thing us adults must do: honor others' rights to their own lives. This book provides proof that kids have rights, and it explains how those rights play out in a loving home, with the parents being the "Oak Tree" and using "leverage" to ensure that children do honor others. This new way of parenting means no more helicoptering, no more "persuasion", no more anger, no more "rules", no more rebellion by kids, no more tantrums, no more anxiety. Only freedom and happiness and mutual respect as we go from being primarily "parents" to Care-Friends. This new relationship creates a trusting friendship for life, with all parties being self-fulfilled (self-full), independent, honest, care-free and fair. When everyone in a home honors each other's rights -- the pursuit of happiness is the glorious pursuit of all. This book is also available in Spanish on Amazon under the title "Los Niños Tienen Derechos".