When the glass of milk...
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When the glass of milk was spilled over the kitchen table for the third time in four nights, the lecture which followed, contained such choice remarks as "Do you think I'm here just to mop up after you?" and "Why don't you use the sense God gave you?" They echoed inside the neighbor's living room across the street.
Though it seems to be widely believed, by parents in particular, that the more loudly you make your point the more effective you are likely to be, there is no known statistical corroboration for this belief. It is much more likely that loud scoldings for something that was beyond a child's ability to control will make a child resentful and angry, creating deep feelings of inferiority. None of these effects are notably helpful in preventing spilled milk.
Discipline is important, of course. But the volume level at which discipline is administered, while often having a direct correlation with our own feelings of frustration, tends to have a reverse relationship with its effectiveness.
Though it seems to be widely believed, by parents in particular, that the more loudly you make your point the more effective you are likely to be, there is no known statistical corroboration for this belief. It is much more likely that loud scoldings for something that was beyond a child's ability to control will make a child resentful and angry, creating deep feelings of inferiority. None of these effects are notably helpful in preventing spilled milk.
Discipline is important, of course. But the volume level at which discipline is administered, while often having a direct correlation with our own feelings of frustration, tends to have a reverse relationship with its effectiveness.
