As Goes Fear, so Goes Discipline

“I don’t think fear has a place in the raising of children,” she said, she being a mom who, as is the case with most middle-class moms these days, has romanticized children and their upbringing.

“I don’t want my children to be afraid of me,” she went on to say. Mind you, she said these things after telling me that her five-year-old daughter is belligerently defiant, throws extreme tantrums when denied, and calls her “poopy-head” at least twice a week, to which I opined, “Your daughter isn’t afraid of you, obviously.”