1. Don't spoil me. I know quite well that I ought not to have all I ask for. I'm only testing you.
2. Don't be afraid to be firm with me. I prefer it. It makes me feel 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 others if you can help it. I'll take much more notice if you talk quietly with me in private.
6. Don't make me feel that my mistakes are sins. It upsets my sense of value.
7. Don't protect me from consequences. I need to learn the painful way sometimes.
8. Don't be too upset when I hate you! It isn't you that I hate, but the power to thwart me
9. Don't make to much notice of my small ailments. Sometimes they get me the attention I need.
10. Don't nag me. If you do, I shall protect my self by appearing deaf.
11. Don't make me rash promises. Remember I feel badly let down when promises are broken.
12. Don't forget that I can not explain my self as well as I should like to. That's why I am not always accurate.
13. Don't tax my amnesty too much. I am easily frightened into telling lies.
14. Don't be inconsistent. That completely confuses me and make me lose faith in you.
15. Don't put me off when I ask questions. If you do, you will find that I will stop asking and seek my information elsewhere.
16. Don't tell me my fears are silly. They are terribly real and you can do much to reassure me if you try to understand.
17. Don't ever suggest that you are perfect or infallible. It gives me too great a shock when I discover that your are neither.
18. Don't ever think that it is beneath your dignity to apologize to me. An honest apology makes me feel surprisingly warm toward you.
19. Don't forget how quickly I am growing up. It must be very difficult for you to keep pace with me, but try please.
20. Don't forget that I love experimenting... I couldn't get on without it, so please put up with it.
21. Don't forget that I can thrive not without lots of love, understanding, from you! But this I don't have to mention, do i!

I knelt to pray but not for long. I had too much to do.

Must hurry off and get to work, for bills would soon be due.

And so I said a hurried prayer. Jumped up from off my knees.

My Christian duty now was done; my soul could be at ease.

All through the day I had no time, to speak a word of cheer.

No time to speak of Christ to friends. They’d laugh at me, I feard.

No time – no time, too much to do,

That was my constant cry, no time to give to those in need

At last it was time to die…

and when before the lord came. I stood with downcast eyes.

Within His hands He held a book, it was the “Book of Life”.

He looked into the book and said,

“Your name I cannot find, I once was going to write it down,

but never found the time.”