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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I was with him until he said "fear." Fear is an important part of disciplining a child. When one of my kids makes a mad dash for a busy street, it's my job artificially to create the sense of imminent danger in terms em can understand, because traffic is hard to understand, but Daddy suddenly yelling isn't.
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I was just thinking the same thing. It was pretty clear to me that pissing off my dad was a bad thing, though I don't remember him actually ever being the one to mete out punishment.
In my high school we had a dean of discipline who doubled as the football coach. He was terrifying, and I think we were better behaved for it. No one wanted to be sent to him. I don't know what he actually did to students, but I know they looked rather traumatized afterwards. We were a very polite bunch.
