THE NARRATIVE ARC

How To Raise a Citizen Who Shares the Chocolate

It doesn’t involve corporal punishment

Michelle Teheux
The Narrative Arc
Published in
7 min readApr 26, 2024

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When my daughter Erma was a toddler, my favored punishment was a brief timeout in a corner.

I wanted to teach her to behave, but what I actually taught her was that she could do the crime as long as she was ready to do the time.

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Michelle Teheux
The Narrative Arc

Lover of literature. Former newspaper editor. Fascinated by everything. Contact: michelleteheux@gmail.com. To buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/michelleteheux