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Then you certainly know that there are widely differing schools of psychological thought on just about any issue you can come up with.
A Skinerian would spank the kid, figuring the reasons behind her behavior were less important than changing the behavior through a negative stimulus, a Freudian would assume the kid was acting out on feelings deep within her subconscious and attempt to find out what they were, and Erickson would take this child's actions as meaning she was deep in stage 3, initiative vs. guilt.
Myself, if she puts up a huge fight and absolutely won't do what she is told, she gets sent to the timeout room for 10 minutes. If during that ten minutes she decides she wants to do it, she can come out, do it, and we're done. Otherwise, in 10 minutes I go in to remind her of her choices.
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