Letter: Child discipline
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She points up the extraordinary lack of expertise of parents. Bribery - "if you stop you can have some sweets" - is a technique that does not work with any human beings, whatever age, except in the most simplistic of ways, and is certainly not a training for independent adulthood. A screaming child in a crowded supermarket is not shown another way of interacting by his or her parent initiating a blazing row.
John Harrison
Machynlleth, Powys
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