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Originally Posted by maleficent
Yeah, way to coddle the kid and prepare them for real life.. .I'm so ashamed he's from my alma mater - I thought they had more sense than that.
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Modern psychology is not about sense, its about protecting people's feelings. It takes the american attitude that you MUST be happy ALL the time or something is horribly wrong and puts the authority of a medical profession behind it. That's why shrinks tell us it's OK for the kid to color on the wall (don't stifle his creativity!)
Positive rewards as reinforcement are great, but sometimes kids won't respond to anything but unwanted consequences. If the mom had LEFT her on the street corner I'd have had a child-safety issue with it. But she didn't and from the girl's reactions it seems to have worked. The one thing kids at that age hate more than anything else is public humiliation. My grades would have been SO much better if my folks hadn't allowed me to keep them a secret.