by five9hitman

Created on: March 18, 2009

If they can learn algebra in the fourth grade they should be pushed to do so. I grew up on a farm and what I was doing at the age of 9 was not thought possible at first. My dad even though he had witnessed a younger child than myself working at seven and a half years old...he still did not believe that I could do the same thing until I took matters into my own hands!

One day when he went off to handle some other business, I took the initiative and fueled up one of his tractors, the Indianapolis Moline this particular tractor was one of the most powerful tractors made during that time. For a nine year old to put Butane into the fuel tank could prove fatal if you did not know what you were doing!

Butane comes out at subzero temperatures and could freeze any part of your body instantly! And once frozen that particular part of your body could snap off like breaking a pretzel. Most of todays parents are slowly learning that children are very impressionable and they can comprehend more than you might imagine.

Our country is still slightly behind some of our competitors when it comes to educating our children. Asian children work harder at being good in school; basically because their parents have no problem making them feel guilty about their performance. They are made to understand how hard the father have worked to get where they are.

Here in America some of us are slack when it comes to pushing are children to do better. We don't readily chastise our children when they are performing poorly in school. We use the usual your own punishment technique for just about everything! I have found that a 3 stage technique works better than just grounding your child.

1) Give the 3 options of punishment.

2) First take away the priviledge option, no TV, no X-Box, etc. etc.

3)Give them the choice of a quick fix the belt to the butt.

4) And last but not least and my personal favorite...Make um do military exercises...from pushups. jumping jacks, until you sweat!

Believe it or not!...my two sons chose the belt over everything else. They use to tell me that they just wanted the punishment to be quick and over with. They said the other punishments were worse than the belt to the butt!....My hand to God...that's what they chose. I said all that to say this...when you are done pushing them and there is still a discipline problem give them the 3 options but with all of the punishments... you should all ways tell them that you love them and that it hurts you more than it hurts them for you to

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