> Because at its core, much like tough love, the goal is to create "conforming" children that are causing any trouble. "Positive Discipline" is nothing like th

> Because at its core, much like tough love, the goal is to create "conforming" children that are causing any trouble. "Positive Discipline" is nothing like the "tough love" described in this story. It's only "tough love" in the sense that you still give kids boundaries. There's nothing conformist about it. Rather, it encourages parents and kids to express themselves, allowing time for emotions to come out in a healthy way that encourages independence while reducing reliance on family members to step in and fix things that kids are capable of doing themselves. This all starts at a very young age, when you begin to sleep on your own, feed yourself, tie your shoes, etc. > That's how you educate dogs, and even with animals there a limits to what is acceptable (and rightly so). This is a discipline that's grown over the last 70+ years. Everyone responds to feedback. Learning, trial and error, evolution etc. apply to all species, albeit at different rates.