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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by belorn on Monday December 05, 2016 @10:03AM (#13105722)
Kids often has a reason for doing things, including not cooperating. Where he trying to get attention? emulating? You can't reason with kids out of those.

Trying to scare kids into compliance is rarely a effective method, and has some very nasty side effects. If long term approaches can't be used, child proof gas knobs exist.

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Re:No Spanking, No Time-Out, No Problems by ivanhoe on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:52AM (#13144921)
Child proof knobs exist, yes, but there are million of other dangerous things all around us. In my eyes, trying to fix the world instead of teaching the kid to follow some basic rules is a completely wrong approach. It's like the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, you just can't hide all the spindles in the kingdom, it never works.
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