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The Truth About Consequences
You know, first we thought Amy
was just a willful, spoiled kid,” one father recalled. “We
had all these books and TV personalities and our pedia-
trician telling us that if we were simply firmer and more
consistent with her, things would get better. Of course,
Amy’s grandparents added their two cents; they were
constantly telling my wife and me about how Amy
would have been handled in the ‘good old days.’ So we
did the whole sticker chart and time-out routine for a
long time. It makes me shudder to think of how much
time that poor kid spent in time-out. But we were told
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