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Parents know the myth of the perfect discipline strategy for children came to life when Mr. and Mrs. Let Me Tell You What To Do proceeded to tell Mr. and Mrs. I Don't Know A Thing About Raising Kids how to rear their children.

Mr. and Mrs. Let Me Tell You What To Do lived extremely long lives - centuries long. Exceptionally long lifetimes granted the eternal parents more than ample opportunities to learn the ins and outs of every type of personality a child could possess and every type of discipline style individual parents could adopt. The super-parents also mastered the efficiency of alternate discipline strategies.

What the super-parents became extremely superior at, however, was their ability to utilize all discipline styles and strategies to arrive at the most effective discipline program for individual children. This mastery gave Mr. and Mrs. Let Me Tell You What To Do the "right" to tell other parents how to raise their kids and led to today's myth of the perfect discipline strategy for children.

You see, Mr. and Mrs. Let Me Tell You What To Do were super geniuses who did not need to write things down. Therefore, when they passed away, they left no records from which regular life-spanned parents could learn. Not having records to use as guides for disciplining children prompted child and family experts to rule out possibilities that a perfect discipline strategy existed. So... Voila! There you have it. Birth of the perfect discipline strategy myth.

Any who, because of the previously mentioned, we non-genius folks have been striving to capture the "unwritten" word as best we can so our children may benefit from at least a portion of the lost information. We have made great strides from reading information (that we non-genius type had sense enough to record), talking with friends, family, and professionals, and observing our children to determine what their individual needs are.

We exercise responsibility for children by nurturing them, guiding them, socializing them, educating them, encouraging them, and so on. In the midst of it all, we even discipline them because along the way we have learned a few things regarding the how-to's of discipline concerning child development, despite non-confirmation from the unwritten word.

Parental personalities, outlooks on life, living situations, goals parents set for children, and children's personalities all play roles in determining the types of discipline styles and strategies parents will use with their

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