1. Don’t spoil me. I know quite well I ought not to have all I ask for. I am only testing you
2. Do not be afraid to be firm with me. I prefer it. It makes me more secure.
3. Don’t let me form bad habits. I have to rely on you to detect them in the early stages.
4. Don’t make me feel smaller than I am. It only makes me behave stupidly “big”
5. Don’t correct me in front of people if you can help it. I’ll take much more notice if you talk quietly in private.
6. Don’t protect me from consequences; I need to learn the painful way sometimes.
7. Don’t make me feel my mistakes are sins: it upsets my sense of values.
8. Don’t be to upset when I say “I hate you” it isn’t you I hate, but your power to thwart me.
9. Don’t take to much notice of my aliments. Sometimes they get me the attention I need.
10. Don’t nag. If you do, I shall have to protect myself by appearing deaf.
11. Don’t make rash promises. Remember that I feel badly let down when promises are broken.
12. Don’t forget I cannot explain myself as well as I should like. This is why I’m not always accurate.
13. Don’t put me off when I ask questions. If you do, you will find that I stop asking and seek my information elsewhere.
14. Don’t tell me my fears are silly, they are terribly real and you can do so much to reassure me. If you try to understand.
15. Don’t ever suggest that you are perfect and infallible. It gives me too great a shock when I discover that you are neither.
16. Don’t keep changing your values. It completely confuses me and let me lose my faith in you.
17. Don’t ever think that it is beneath your dignity to apologize to me. An honest apology makes me surprisingly warm towards you.
18. Don’t forget love experimenting. I couldn’t get on without it. So please put up with it.
19. Don’t forget how quickly I am growing up. It must be difficult for you to keep pace with me, but please try.20. Don’t forget that I can’t thrive without lots of understanding and love, but don’t need to tell you, do I?
20. Don’t forget that I can’t thrive without lots of understanding and love, but don’t need to tell you, do I?
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