Other people just need good old-fashioned discipline. Parents that can carefully tread the line between punishment and child abuse. Kids do too many things with impunity, because the punishment is always something that can be circumvented. For example, foul language could be punished by no TV - but there are an infinite number of ways to get around this. You can't circumvent dad and his whooping stick. No sir.
Teenagers just want to be different, like everybody else.
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