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Part I
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When parents make a lot of rules about their children's behavior,they make trouble for themselves.I used to spend half my time making sure my rules were obeyed,and the other half answering questions like"Jake can get up whenever he like,so why can'tI?"or"Why can't I plays with Angela?"Jack's mum doesn't mind who he plays with"or"Jack can drink anything he likes.Why can't I drink wine too?"
Jack's mum,I decided was a wise woman.I started saying things like"Of course,dear.You can drink as much wine as you like"and "No,I don't mind how late you get up"and "Yes,dear,you can play with Angela as often as you like."
the reault have been marvelous.They don't want to get up late any more,they've decided they don't like wine,and,most important,they've stopped playing with Angela.I've now realized(as Jack's mum realized a long time ago)that they only wanted to do all these nasty things because they weren't allow to.


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Part II Radio phone-in

Radio presenter: Good afternoon. And welcome to our midweek phone-in. In today's program we're going to concentrate on personal problems. And here with me in the studio I've got Tessa Colbeck, who writes the agony column in Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at the University of Norfolk. The number to ring with your problem is 01, if you're outside London, two two two, two one two two. And we have our first caller on the line, and it's Rosemary, I think, er calling from Manchester. Hello Rosemary.

Rosemary: Hello.

Radio presenter: How can we help you, Rosemary?

Rosemary: Well, it's my dad. He won't let me stay out after ten o'clock at night and all my friends can stay out much longer than that. I always have to go home first. It's really embarrassing …

Tessa: Hello, Rosemary, love. Rosemary, how old are you dear?

Rosemary: I'm fifteen in two month's time.

Tessa: And where do you go at night — when you go out?

Rosemary: Just to my friend's house, usually. But everyone else can stay there much later than me. I have to leave at about quarter to ten.

Tessa: And does this friend of yours … does she live near you?

Rosemary: It takes about ten minutes to walk from her house to ours.

Tessa: I see. You live in Brighton, wasn't it? Well, Brighton's …

Rosemary: No. Manchester … I live in Manchester.

Tessa: Oh. I'm sorry, love. I'm getting mixed up. Yes, well Manchester's quite a rough city, isn't it? I mean, your dad …

Rosemary: No. Not really. Not where we live it isn't. I don't live in the City Center or anything like that. And Christine's house is in a very quiet part.

Tessa: Christine. That's your friend, is it?

Rosemary: Yeah. That's right. I mean, I know my dad gets worried but it's perfectly safe.

Maurice: Rosemary. Have you talked about this with your dad?

Rosemary: No. He just shouts and then he says he won't let me go out at all if I can't come home on time.

Maurice: Why don't you just try to sit down quietly with your dad — sometime when he's relaxed - and just have a quiet chat about it? He'll probably explain why he worries about you. It isn't always safe for young girls to go out at night.

Tessa: Yes. And maybe you could persuade him to come and pick you up from Christine's house once or twice.

Rosemary: Yes. I don't think he'll agree to that, but I'll talk to him about it. Thanks.

Part Ⅲ Family discipline

1. Discipline needs to be there in a certain amount but too much of it can be a bad thing I think and I certainly do get too much of it occasionally.

2. I think talking to them, trying to explain why you're upset, what it is they have done wrong is better than hitting them, because if you hit them, they learn to hit other things, other people, you, and I don't think that is a solution to anything.

3. My experience as, as, as a mother now is you can, you can talk with a child very much and, and the child is going to understand much more than you believe, even if it is a one-year-old or two-years-old child. And I think it's um it's a very bad thing punishing children, because it remains being er an awfully er dark experience, and so it was it for me too, because when I'm thinking about my parents I can't help thinking about these days where they punished me.

4. I wouldn't be as strict as my dad was, definitely not, cos （because 的缩写）I don't think that works. That only makes you rebel.

5. Well, there's smacking and smacking. I don't at all agree with beating a child, but I do think sometimes a quick, short smack on the hand or arm is better than a long drawn-out moan. It's quick and the child understands it.

6. I can't really defend it when I, when I hit my child, I don't do it often but something about it makes me think that it's not … a terrible thing to do. I mean, what are the alternatives? You can shout at your child, you can try to sit down and reason with your child, which is incredibly difficult if you're trying to talk to a two-year-old. Or what else can you do? You can send them out of the room, you can send them up to their room, you can not let them … have any pudding for the dinner, or something, but I mean to me a little spank, to me it's quick, it's honest, it's physical, but having said all that I still try not to do it.