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[quote=Anonymous]Europeans do not indulge their children or dogs (or horses, for that matter!) in positive-reinforcement-only. The ones that do also have "coddled" aka spoiled children. Learning "no" and how to follow rules is a really important part of development. In the US, if you chastise your children people are horrified and think they are "abused." It shows in their children. I raise my children religiously and they go to a classical school where this nonsense is not tolerated and they are around well-behaved peers. My children are lovely and fit right in when we travel to Europe. We are not mean by any imagination, just have expectations for behavior. As a result, by the time they are in middle school they need much less parenting because they already know how to behave. It's rare I have to correct my kids once they are around 10 or so. [/quote]
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