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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yourturntoloveit, post: 100975, member: 57&quot;]Re methods of discipline for a young child.</p><p><br /></p><p>Between the ages of 5 or so years old and up to about the age of 7 (before the &quot;age of reason&quot; when a &quot;good talking to&quot; would make me mend my ways) my parents (either one who was offended/or worried about my behavior/safety) would tell me to go out (of the house) and find a &quot;switch.&quot;&nbsp; Let me tell you, a little kid can stay out of the house a long time looking for just the right switch on a couple of acres of land. </p><p><br /></p><p>My parents told me later that the mission to find my own switch worked exactly like they intended.&nbsp; I would be gone a long time trying to find the &quot;right&quot; switch.&nbsp; My parent(s) had cooled off before I made it back in the house with whatever &quot;switch&quot; I found (usually a short, limp stem off some of the shrubbery). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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