Child starts to misbehave.
I say, "Hmmm, shall I ask [bff] to have a little chat with you about this?"
Child straightens out immediately.
I've tried her techniques, but I am not boring enough. It's an art I aspire to.
2.09.2011
The Power of a Good Scolding
My bff is visiting us later today. She is famous for giving marathon scoldings, full of detail and rational reasoning and quite endless. She'll pretty much bore a child into compliance. I am getting so much mileage out of this:
I've tried her techniques, but I am not boring enough. It's an art I aspire to.
I've tried her techniques, but I am not boring enough. It's an art I aspire to.
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Boringness as discipline… I’ll have to give that a try when Olive gets old enough to sit still and listen.
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