The other day I was talking to one of my younger buddies about methods used to discipline children.

We talked about 'time outs', grounding, holding back 'rewards' until the child displayed desired behaviour etc. One of the things we discussed was the act of spanking and my friend explained that no, he does not spank any of his children.

He explained that what he does is to take the misbehaving child out for a ride in the car and talk. He said that usually this works and that the child calms down fairly quickly and really doesn't take too much time.

By removing the child, in this case his son, from the immediate situation and providing a change of scenery, the child is allowed to focus on something different. Once the child has the opportunity to change perspective, things get better quickly and the child has better understanding of his place within the family and begins to understand the family’s concept of acceptable behaviour.

He kindly shared a picture of the process which I share with you now (scroll down).

Yup, it must have been about 1980, I was just a kid.  A persuasive kid and somehow I talked Mum into giving me a drive up the road while I was sitting on the hood of the car.  At first it was kind of cool, going down the driveway, but not for long.  The road was kind of twisty and bumpy, I had nothing to hold on to.  I'm pretty sure I didn't panic like this... but my Mum's father, Grampie Reid, who watched the whole thing take place did.  No sooner had Mum dropped me off, Grampie was taking her to task...

Wild times Mum... never wonder why I became an adrenalin junkie when I hit puberty.