[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"There are other means," she said. "Children are very smart, and even when they are as young as two or three months old, they will understand if you have a tough look, or change the tone of your voice, or turn away from them...."

The wheels are spinning, but there's nothing behind the wheel. Kids learn one thing pretty quick: what a bluff is. When kids realise that a parent is bluffing, discipline goes out the window.

[Right Angler]

"'If he puts his hand on a hot oven, he will be burnt and he will not do it again,' said Moushira Khattab of Egypt.'

And I'm supposed to take parenting advice from this mental midget? A burned child is now preferable to a popped hand... I think I get it now; just let little Johnny play in the street. Getting hit by an eighteen-wheeler will teach the insolent little bastard a lesson he won't soon forget.

These people never cease to amaze me.