The Life Coach-Adam C. Winston: Being Taught a Lesson

The Life Coach-Adam C. Winston: Being taught the Lesson: As a coach I often encourage parents to come up with the simplest solutions to achieve the greatest impact when disciplining their child...

Being Taught a Lesson

As a coach I often encourage parents to come up with the simplest solutions to achieve the greatest impact when disciplining their children. By this I mean if a parent was trying to teach their male child a lesson exercise may be just the right mix of punishment and encouragement. A parent with female children may teach the child a lesson by having them do chores they would otherwise chose not to do. Not to lose the point since these choices in punishment aren't specific to any gender. The point is to use creative processes to address  current problem in hopes of the teaching the child a life lesson. A lesson that identifies the reality; which is--in life there are consequences to ones action.

This should be pretty straight forward however; it would seem that society has a different idea of what punishment is considered acceptable. A mother whose son was kicked out of a school bus decided to do the right thing and try and teach her son a lesson by making him walk home. What she soon discovered is instead of the lesson being learned by the son; the mother found herself being taught a lesson. The lesson being, she might be charged with a misdemeanor for trying to teach her child that they are consequences to ones actions.

In my opinion the response from police who charged this mother with a crime is an insult to all parents everywhere. Shame on you Jonesboro Arkansas Police Department.