Things I believe that other people don't

A myth is not an entirely false story. A myth is a story with some true thing at the kernel, around all which all sorts of fabrications have been wrapped. So, if you tell me that something is a "myth," I start asking myself where the truth might lie beneath the fiction.

Adults should not demand "respect" from children. They should focus on "respectful behavior." Respect is an emotion, and we should not tell other people that they must have one or another feeling. Demanding respect from children (or even from other adults) means that we do not want them to live with integrity or good self-knowledge. I rather suspect that forcing "respect" creates a baseline of conflict between adults and children that manifests in other unrelated conflicts.