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  • Effective Discipline (7-22-2011)

     

    PODCAST SCRIPT:

    Something amazing happens when discipline helps a child discover the folly of their actions.

    Once a group of boys chased a cow we had at Heartlight until it had heat stroke and died.  It was against the rules, but they did it anyway.  Helping them feel the weight of what they had done, I instructed them to dig a huge hole, deep and wide enough to bury that cow.  After a day of digging in the sweltering East Texas heat and smelling the dead, bloating cow, they learned their lesson more than any other form of discipline I could have applied.

    When consequences are matched to misbehavior, it teaches the lesson far better than punishment that isn’t.


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