Whatever works, used to be that children that misbehaved to that extent got their bottoms paddled and it seemed to work pretty well.
The FIRST genuine reply \o/
That is NOT to express disdain over the others BUT!
I have EIGHT living adult children BECAUSE
I 'passed-judgement'
I insisted upon 'NOT YOUR WAY but MY WAY'
and yes, a butt swipe WOULD UNDERLINE my instructions
and also curb wayward dissension and do that, at sub light speed
THINK-ON !!
Such behaviours, helped to make me who I am become
It did me no harm ~to learn to 'show respect' and to obey the leaders
Yes I have stormed upstairs to respond to screaming children, to discover
that one of the four lads, had built and set fire to a stack of lolly stiicks on the boys bedroom carpet "bonfire"
After, putting out the flames and cutting away the scorched carpet and what remained of it's backing
I tanned the bare hide of the child responsible, in front of the others
and then lectured them all
on the possibilities, of, what might have happened, had I been 'out of the house' when it happened
and asked them all, just "how I might feel
to come home, to find that have no-children, because a naughty little boy 'played' with matches"
PC has a great deal to answer-for
Yes, I get the child-protection angle > it followed after court cases of severe parental neglect and cruelty
But that, can hardly be referred-to as 'parenting'
dave