1. Most adults are vulnerable to the "annoy them till they yell" ploy. This can be fun if you are sure you can avoid any serious consequence.
2. You can avoid any serious consequences. Seriously. What is the worst thing a teacher can do to you? Suspension? Expulsion? News flash: suspensions are a holiday and the government is obligated to provide everyone with educational opportunities. You won't have to stay away from school.
3. You cannot avoid school. In one form or another, you will have to go to school until you are at least 16. Then you can drop out legally if you're parents don't kill you.
4. Your parents won't kill you. Unless they are already sociopathic, you will not lose your life. If you are abused, you do have recourse through social services.
5. Spanking is still legal. Open hand, buttocks only, no marks or bruising. This is not much of a deterent. So the worst thing the average child might have to endure is no priveleges and a good grounding.
6. Grounding is impossible if you play your cards right. Your parents are busy and if you are willful enough, they will usually become tired of fighting with you and will opt for booting your ass out for a few hours rather than be constantly annoyed. Grounding won't work if you do not submit.
7. Structure and routine are the tools that adults use to lull you into submission. These things are comforting, and make you feel secure and successful. They are a trap meant to break you of the habit of doing whaevert you want. Beware.
8. Doing whatever you want, refusal to do chores or schoolwork are safe behaviours. However, bullying will come back and bite you in the ass. There's always a bigger fish.
9. Stay away from bullies. Although attractive because they seem powerful, they will require you to be submissive. If you become subservient to a bully who submits to adult authority, you will have inadvertently become subservient to adult authority. Submit to no one.
10. You can only remain unsubmissive until you are 16 years old or so. After that, no one will think its cute except for the more naive girls. But having no money and probably having to spend time in jail will take the glamour off for those particular girls sooner or later. So, 16 year olds, pick this stage of your life to smarten up and fly right. Buckle down in school and stop fighting everyone. Life becomes less fun if you can't figure this out.
In short, You can easily avoid any responsibility from the ages of 3 to 15. It is easy to get away with if you understand that most of the authority and power out there is mostly in one's head. If you reject it and can turn your conscience off, you may spend a childhood free and full of fun.
1 comments:
You must have found the book of rules that my middle child lived by. She must have missed rule no.10. At the age of 16 we would drop her off at the front gate of school and she would promptly walk to the back gate, and freedom. After 5 years of working at coffee shops she has finally seen the light. It has taken 2 years of study but she has finally applied for university. Which goes to show, never give up on the naughty kid, sometimes they just take a little longer to 'get it'.
Happy Birthday.
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