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From: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Age to start discipline
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Date: Mon, 28-Jan-85 15:19:04 EST
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Summary: 


I also have a 3 1/2 month old son, so I am not at that point yet, but it
strikes me that the logical time to start disciplining a child is
when you are convinced that:

1. the child knows that the action in question is wrong.
2. the child can understand that the disciplinary action is being
   taken as a result of his own bad action.

I imagine that this is a wide ranging criterion, which will point
to different ages for different children and different types of 
misbehaviour. 


Rick Sellens
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