A quote from Love and Logic Tip from Cline/Fay: "When little kids rebel, parents can quash the rebellion with a stern order and get good short-term results. But when kids hit adolescence and rebel, parental orders become unenforceable. Allowing children at a young age to practice decision making on simple issues teaches them to think, to control their own lives. When adolescence hits, they will be less susceptible to peer pressure on booze, drugs, sex, and other temptations. They will have learned that they can make their own wise decisions. Those kids can become their parents' very best friends during the tough teenage years. They can also become their own best friend."
Of course, you'll need to put up with a child who, from time to time, will be cold, hot, thirsty, hungry, angry, messy and otherwise ill suited to go out in public. Can you handle that?
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