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Opinion: If I were in charge of - My house, Taylor Douglas, 10, Hammersmith

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I'd change bedtimes and I'd change what we have for dinner and just make the house better. My bedtime is eight o'clock at the moment and I'd change it to 10.30.

When my mum sends me to bed I'm not tired but she makes me go to sleep and she says "you'll be tired in the morning" and I never am. And all my other friends go at nine o'clock, or whenever they like. My dinners are nice, but maybe I'd have something different.

My mum makes normal food that parents make but sometimes I've made my own sort of sauces and my mum never lets me have them. She says "well, I'm cooking" and she says "because I'm the grown up and you're the child. When you get older maybe you can cook." I'd change what the house looks like. My mum has two sofas and an armchair.

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