Good discipline is about flexibility and humility. The teacher/student roles swap every day, often every hour—particularly when our children are teaching us something important. Sometimes they may even teach us that the way we are disciplining them is not working, and as parents, our role is to learn from that and adapt. As Walter Barbee, president emeritus of the Family Foundation of Virginia, said: If you have told a child a thousand times and he still does not understand, then it is not the child who is the slow learner. There is a big difference between disciplining in the short term, to
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