Susan W. Tanner

April 2003
Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism. Children — as well as people of all ages — improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding. When a young man I know had a long hippie hairstyle during his teens, his parents chose to concentrate instead on his good work ethic and his kindness to needy people. Eventually he himself chose to cut his hair. He went on to get a good education, serve in the Church, and follow in his own family this pattern of loving children into doing what is right.