音频·阅读| 不一样的“惩罚”

As Punishment, 

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It Laid an Egg

By Maren Bradley Anderson

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女儿把图书馆的书弄丢了，母亲本想好好惩罚教育她，没想到这“惩罚”最后却变成了女儿甘之如饴的一大乐事......孩子犯了错，作为父母要惩罚孩子吗?什么样的惩罚方式才是合情合理且行之有效的?关于家庭教育，关于惩罚方式，无论父母儿女，都可以从本文获得一点灵感和启迪。

Leeny stood in the chicken coop, shovel in hand, a huge grin crinkling her eyes.1 She was not faking it: My 7-year-old was having fun cleaning out the chicken coop. I was happy she was enjoying herself, but I’d meant the chore to be punishment for losing a library book.2 So, was I winning or losing at parenting?

My daughter always has her nose in a book.3 She even took to reading in the car on the long drive to summer camp, which was where she lost the book.

This is the first lost library book in my life. My family has always been over educated, but we were poor, poor, poor. I didn’t own books. I borrowed books. My library books lived on a specific shelf on my headboard while they were mine, and it pained me when I had to slide them into the return slot at the library.4

However, my daughters have more books now than I owned my whole childhood, and I knowingly contribute to the problem by adding to the stacks.5 So it’s probably my fault that when Leeny realized she had lost the book, she shrugged.