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Dear Child,
Today you think me unkind. You asked if you could do something you thought was special and I told you "No." The look on your face nearly melted my resolve, but I stood firm.
Saying "no" to you is not as easy as you might think. I made a promise to myself that I would say "Yes" as often as I could because I knew I would say "No" an awful lot. It's true that my parents said "No" to me growing up. However, I am not simply following their example when I say "No" to you. There must have been a reason, and indeed there was. I won't try to explain it to you--you wouldn't understand.
As you continue to grow, I promise to allow you to make more and more choices and, in doing so, allow you to take on more and more responsibility because one day you will be a grown-up. And I want you to be able to make good choices so you can learn to be a responsible adult. If I made every choice for you, I'm afraid you would never learn.
And it just may be that when you grow up you might have children of your own. And when you
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