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yes .. oh my .. yes of course
the same way people should train their pets
beat them and cause pain to make them submit to your power ![Angry >:(](http://www.getbig.com/boards/Smileys/classic/angry.gif)
FFS
Kids ARE NOT to be treated as equals to adults. You are NOT your kids friend, play pal, etc. Of course you may play with them, but you always maintain that Authority or as you call it POWER...
One time when I was young and I had a rubix cube, and my mother would scramble it up and give it back to me to fix...I thought of her as a "playpal" and I playfully bit my mother on the hand...I giggled...she looked at me, took my knuckle and bit down on it, with the same force I did and told me to never bite your mother, or an adult...and it hurt. I never bit my mother again or an adult again...for that matter anyone.
Kids get this notion that when you play with them that you are one of them. Kids have their own world where they view grown ups as BIG people who do Big people things, whereas kids are in their little realm...once you enter their realm, they view you as equals. But when they try to enter Big People's realm, they are seen as not fitting or outsiders or laughed at--because they don't belong.