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How To Raise a Citizen Who Shares the Chocolate
It doesn’t involve corporal punishment
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7 min readApr 26, 2024
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.