Along with the magic of Christmas, there are a fair amount of benefits to childhood. You aren’t expected to know much, or be responsible for much, or even to lift much. Everyone around you expects very little of your little body.
You are required to uphold all the laws of childhood, but even those aren’t difficult to follow. They’re only difficult to remember.
Aside from the one childhood Proverb, “Mother is the name of God on the lips of children,” there are the ten commandments of childhood, which are understandably much less serious.
10. Thou shalt never, ever, ever say anything is your fault.
“The weasels put those green beans under my chair, not me.”
9. Thou shalt discover new places to hide bogies.
8. Thou shalt scream “Stranger Danger!” whenever those aunts and uncles you don’t like come around.
7. Thou shalt not eat the last of a package of anything.
6. Covet not thy neighbor’s chores.
(And avoid your own at all costs.)
5. Thou shalt always share things that adults don’t want you to share.
Cough, cough, wipe, wipe.
4. Thou shalt not wait ’til you’re old to drive a car.
At six you can do anything.
3. Thou shalt own it if you lick it.
No matter what it is, if you want it bad enough, put your DNA on it.
2. Thou shalt cross your eyes whenever a camera is near you, or aiming your direction.
1. Thou shalt not let a good white wall be without crayon.
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And it’s so easy to slip up, to fall short of a commandment or two, but don’t worry, it probably just means you’ve grown out of childhood and you’re now a teenager.
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