Discipline
Some may have heard about the West Bend incident the other day. I have mixed feelings about this, but after is listening to an interesting podcast on This American Life, I discovered another side. To discipline is to learn obey the rules. Adam and I have a strong sense of discipline in our family unit. A lot has come from our parents, no doubt, but a lot has come out of what we sense as "worry" and This American Life also pointed to as worry (a teacher in a very strict school used it). My children, will never understand the worry we have for them until they have children themselves, but everything we discipline on is because we see "messed up" kids all over and we know what happens come age 18 (if not before) and that worry drives us to discipline them to: listen to adults, follow household rules, go to bed when told clean up, listen to your teacher, etc... And the reason why...well, Adam and I did everything "right" so to say (in American values). We gra...