[philman_36]

After awhile my children learn to get all the facts and not make assumptions.
An afterthought...After a while your kids are apt to "Just say no". You've proven yourself to be disingenuous from the outset, not offering up the conditions from the start like an honest broker would and should.
Kind of like the government. No wonder you've got a democracy at your house.
If you did that to me I'd call you a liar and a proponent of conditionalities.
I'm more world wise than your poor, naive children are.

[VRWC_minion]

An afterthought...After a while your kids are apt to "Just say no".

Actually they learn to get all the facts first. They are not so dumb to realize that they are getting a valuable lesson.

In fact my 21 year old who has left the house thanks me for those lessons now that he is in the real world.