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From: linda@amdcad.UUCP (Linda Seltzer)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
Message-ID: <3838@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 00:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 00:05:00 1985
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Summary: Bedtime hassle

In article <11316@rochester.UUCP>, ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
> > In article <1214@teddy.UUCP> lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney) writes:
> >	Discipline based on fear is worse than no discipline at all.
> > 
> I must pose to you a situation involving a parent child confrontation.
> Parent :    Time for bed.
> 4yr old:    Nope.
> 
> Parent :    Please, time for bed now.
> 4yr old:    Nope.
> 
> Parent :    You must go to bed now.
> 4yr old:    Nope. 
> 
> And so on, what would you do?  Remember, you said discipline based on fear is


Why make the kid go to bed if he's not tired.  When he's tired he'll fall
asleep anyway.  Plenty of parents are frustrated little dictators and the
only way they can exercise power is to impose all kinds of arbitrary
rules on their kids.  May parents used to make me go to bed early,
I just turned on the lights after they fell asleep, and stayed up
most of the night reading.  It never hurt me that I didn't sleep
10 hours a night - good training for engineering school, actually.