BITES – Grown-ups making the rules
Short & Curly
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Who’s in charge at school? Why, that would be the teachers. And who is in charge at home? Your parents or carers. Who is in charge of running the country? Politicians, that’s who. And what do they all have in common?! They’re all grown-ups! How is that fair?!
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| 0:00.0 | Big questions, bite-sized. |
| 0:05.0 | Short and curly bites, bites, bites, bites, |
| 0:09.0 | short and curly bites. |
| 0:11.0 | Big questions, small serving size. |
| 0:16.0 | World leaders, always grown-ups. |
| 0:19.0 | Heads of big companies, old. |
| 0:22.1 | At school, the teachers, famously grown-ups. |
| 0:26.2 | That's why I, Carl Smith, |
| 0:28.3 | and me, Molly Mo-Moh-Dan-Daniels, |
| 0:31.6 | are running for co-presidents of the world |
| 0:34.7 | with a plan to let children have a voice. |
| 0:37.8 | Our platform, at home, kids make the rules, not parents. |
| 0:43.3 | Kids choose what's for dinner. |
| 0:46.3 | Kids choose bedtimes. |
| 0:48.3 | Kids choose who does the chores, and even what chores need doing. |
| 0:53.3 | Because why should the adults get to make up |
| 0:56.3 | all the rules around the house? Today's short and curly bite-sized question, why do grown-ups |
| 1:03.4 | get to make the rules at home? Hey-oh, a yo, hey-oh, Eleanor Gordon-Smith-O. There are a couple of |
| 1:10.7 | different ways to explain why grown-ups have the authority at home. |
| 1:14.7 | One is, it's their house. |
| 1:16.9 | Think about it like this. |
| 1:18.2 | When you're old enough to get your first part-time job and you save up your money and you buy a bike, that's your bike. |
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