The Power Of "NO"

The word "no" is an immensely powerful word, but just who has the power, the parents or the kids.
I have seen many a parent tell their children "no" from the moment they could move about, the reason for this is to stop a child from climbing on a cabinet that may fall on them, or from stopping a child touching the hot oven, basically to stop the child from coming to any harm. What ever the word no is used for, the child has learnt the word no from a very very early age. The first three words that alot of children say is mum, dad, and no. Why is this, well it's quite obvious, those three words are repeated to them more than any other word.
Many of the parents, that I have mentioned above, have a strange response to a child that says no to them, for instance, "put your toys away please", the child responds with, a very firm "NO", the parents reaction is usually, "don't you dare say no to me" or something similar.
The anger from the parent is very obvious, and to the child may be thinking a number of different things.
What ever the child is thinking from this reaction, could be anger, sadness, or even fear. The one thing that the child wont be thinking is "but you taught me how to say NO", a child's logic doesn't work in the same manner as an adults logic does.
When it comes down to it, the child has been taught to say no by the parents themselves, so why does a parent get angry about something that they have taught the child to say. Answer, very simple, the parent does not want to lose the power of being in charge, and also has forgotten where the child has picked up the word no from.
I was talking to a friend of mine who had just had a baby, I was talking to her about how I thought about the word no, her reply was, "I will be teaching my child the word "NO" from the very start, I replied "what if your child one day says no to you", She said my child would never dare to say "no" to me.
That pretty much ended the discussion, as I left it right where it was, THE NEED TO BE DOMINANT.
There is a few problems with this state of mind, I will just speak about just one of the main issues.
If a child grows and would never dare to say "NO" to his/her parents through the fear of what may happen as a consequence. That same child may never be able to talk to his/her parents about an issue of the utmost importance, such as falling pregnant or putting a dent in the family car. Why ? FEAR.