Children are taught by their parents how to behave. Child poem author Shel Silverstein writes about children in several books and poems. In each poem she focuses on a different child setting and conflict. In one poem Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out, she tells the story of a little girl who lacks respect for her parents. Silverstein’s children’s book, Where the Sidewalk Ends is a shining example of the awful, unhealthy message she gives to children because it teaches disrespect, shows children behaving badly, and makes parents look like idiots.