<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414779" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tough Love</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tough love</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Rebecca was a horrid child.<br>Her antics drove her mother wild..<br>Child experts offered their advice<br> but seldom came to visit twice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although her mother tried her best<br>Rebecca outdid all the rest.<br> She was unpleasant rude and crude.<br>An anti social attitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She seldom did as she was told <br>and thought she had the right to scold.<br>Her mother’s efforts at control<br>She seemed to have no other goal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Than making life a misery<br> for members of her family.<br> But then her grandma came to stay.<br>Rebecca came to rue the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandma applied psychology<br>Rebecca placed across her knee<br>She tanned her little bottom hard.<br>Grandma had but scant regard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For what the experts had to say<br>She raised her kids in the old way.<br> A firm hand lovingly applied <br>across Rebecca’s small backside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quickly changed her attitude.<br>Because her Grandma understood.<br>That little girls should never be<br> allowed to think that they were free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To act and speak unpleasantly <br>without they paid the penalty.<br>Rebecca very swiftly learned<br> she got exactly what she earned..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She soon became a paragon.<br>Her bad behaviour was all gone.<br>Which demonstrates that Grandma knew<br> exactly what she had to do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To make Rebecca toe the line<br>applied a little discipline.<br>In her own old fashioned way.<br>It worked a treat I have to say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She changed Rebecca’s attitude<br> and earned her mothers gratitude.<br>Old fashioned ways had proved the best <br>to change Rebecca from a pest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Into a most delightful child.<br>Although the experts all reviled<br> her methods. They could not deny<br> they were effective.I wonder why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Perhaps they lack experience<br> as well as simple common sense.<br>Until they’ve raised a family<br>I doubt if they will ever see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That discipline lovingly applied<br>beats everything which they have tried.<br>A child must know her boundaries<br>She cannot do as she pleases.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think this story serves to show.<br>Although the experts think they know.<br>Experience will always win<br> when teaching children discipline.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">20/05/2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http; // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414779" data-title="Tough Love de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="Tough love Rebecca was a horrid child. Her antics drove her mother wild.. Child experts offered their advice but seldom came to visit twice. Although her mother tried her best Rebecca outdid all the rest. She was unpleasant rude and crude. An..."></div> </div> </div>

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