Parental Rule #142

Parental Rule #142: when you talk to your children it is important to choose your words wisely and only after careful consideration - because even if you happen to forget what you said later that day or week, your child will remember as clearly and accurately as when you first said it, and without a shadow of a doubt, will hold you to whatever it was you said. You think an elephant never forgets? That's nothing compared to the photographic memory of a kid who was promised McDonald's at the end of the week.