And FURTHERMORE...........

Also, in regards to raisin' kids -- If you do NOT start disciplining them and teaching them to listen to you and obey you when they are between 9 months and a year old, it will ONLY get worse when they turn 2, 3, 4 and 5 and so on and so forth.

On the other hand, if you teach them how to behave while they're very little, then by the time they are 2, 3 and 4, they will already have good behavior habits and you won't have the kinds of problems that parents DO have when they do not teach their children good behavior habits! : ) That is for sure!

I really think it's sad when a child is told no, but then they PUSH past their parent and do it anyway!!! WHAT is THAT all about??!!!!!! Stop your kid from doing what you JUST told them NOT to do!!!!!

They are not your boss! You should not feel threatened by them! They should NOT discipline you or punch you or hit you!

If my son did that, I would first punish him for NOT doing what I asked him to do, and then I would further punish him for trying to push past me!

Also -- slapping a child's hand or slapping their bare thigh once when they have mis-behaved does NOT teach them that it's OK to hit. Some people believe it does. I do not.

Once again, if you read "the recipe" that I've written, you start VERY young, teaching them what is right and wrong, and I believe that they get in the habit of obeying -- NOT hitting!

My son NEVER "learned to hit" as a result of being disciplined in the way that we disciplined him. In fact -- he was a VERY well-behaved child, and one day, when he was around 2 years old, he was at our baby-sitters house, and she reported to us that she needed to go to the store that day, and she hired a babysitter for her kids, and she TOOK MY SON with her to the store, and left her two kids at home! One of her two kids was the same age as my son, and the other one was a year younger.

This is one of the many things we praised my son about. We let him know that we were VERY proud of him for being so good that the babysitter wanted to take him with her and leave her kids at home with a babysitter! I was very impressed with that.