How to raise your parents

Art Burshy is reading a book about how-to-raise-kids, while his daughter is sitting on the couch with her smart phone. At some point she looks up and asks what he is reading.

When Art thinks about it...his daughter might actually be right; maybe it is better to educate children about how to deal with their parents.
Kids also have the greater incentive: autonomy. Parents just want their kids to be calm and obedient, which does not necessarily incentivise them to be open minded for looking at other approaches.
And actually adults are just big children that have lost the wonderment, and have grown into limited patterns that align with their desire to have continuity of life, lust and income.

Basically insanity and dysfunction gets passed on from generation to generation.
When a parent is traumatised by his own parents he/she will have developed own dysfunctional patterns, that will in its turn screw up the minds of his/her children. Maybe that dysfunction is different (i.e. a reaction to) from the parent's parent, but still it is there.
So the only intervention is actually to teach children to raise their parents.
By the way it is funny to see how many parents look at schools, and blame them for not providing a safe and good educational environment, where actually the largest issue is not how much can kids learn, but how much can we reduce their dysfunctional behaviour and help them become happy.

So Art starts imagining which elements could be in a book; examples of items kids would need to know about parents could be things like:
- you can not direct your parents as somehow they have access to power over your life and decisions, and access to money. That's why you need to coach them.
- do not assume parents act logical or make sensible decisions. Parents take strange decisions based on frustrations, feelings, and dysfunctional behaviour. They will always present the decisions as logical so that children do not see how much nonsense it all is, and how illogical.
- probably manipulation is the best instrument; in psychology it means 'using means to influence people, without those people being aware'. It is generally better than a frontal puberty-revolution.
- reward your parents for good behaviour with what they consider good: being calm, appearing intelligent in front of other people, show gratefulness and compliment them. And most importantly laugh at the jokes of your father.
- build an inventory of your parents own values and statements, so you can feed them back whenever it fits your own agenda.
- look at which friends your parents identify with, learn about them, adore them and use them to bring important messages and learning points to your parents.

Actually, more and more Art starts believing in the sense of making such a book.
Children are not yet spoilt, they still absorb and the book would clearly and quickly demonstrate to be helpful and effective.
Of course, one tiny detail keeps bothering Art; what if the parents read the book and understand how they have been manipulated...would they be adult enough to accept it, or would they destroy the beautiful harmony that has been created by their children through implementing the book's lessons...?