Discipline

With K-bao's emerging self-awareness and growing mischievousness, the K-folks are beginning to wrestle with the looming question of how to instill some God-fearing, gratification-delaying, old-fashioned values in the little one. Yes, the age-old Foucaultian question: rod, timeout or silent treatment? Stern look or no look?

It is clear already that lectures are going to have limited impact. Look at the little imp tuning out K-Pop already. We can just imagine the nightmare of trying to give her the soapbox about boys, dating etc. in her teens or before the dreaded prom. "Papa don't preach!" - I can hear it already. Lord save us. 

Nicholas Kristof has a humorous piece in the Times this week entitled "Would you Slap your Father? If So, You're a Liberal." Well, if there's any truth in that, given the whacks across the cheek K-Pop has endured just when leaning in for a goodnight kiss, let's just say our little girl leans pretty far left.