“Play Nice” by Simon Rich, is suggestion that adults treat children like they cannot make decision of their own. It is shedding light on how everything a child does or wants to do is not a choice of their own but one of their parents, without regarding the child's feelings or wants. In addition to the fact that as adults we tend to forget that children learn by seeing, and adults don’t typically always do what they tell their children to do. This poem reminds me of a saying my parents use to tell us, “Do as I say, not as I do.” The poem “Play Nice,” also indicates how children are to be seen and not heard in certain
