A poster after my own heart. (I hate walking into PetStupid with their wienie coddlling/training.)
In point of fact, all sides are needed for good training. You cannot simply ignore bad and praise good. Curbing the bad is sometimes deadly important. If you train to drive, you cannot simply refrain from yelling at the driver to keep him from running into the pole, lest you offend him.
[A poster after my own heart.]
Lol, good! My comments were really directed at raising children. Bad behavior cannot be ignored, you’re right.
Dogs are a bit different as they never rise above the intelligence of a two year old child. When my Yorkie did something ‘bad’, he got a stern NO and even a mild pop with a newspaper. He learned fast.
Learning to “stay” will keep him from possibly getting killed, so training is good thing with dogs AND children.