Tuesday, May 6, 2008

discipline

In teacher college, or as they like to call it these days, education courses, we learn discipline is often best applied as a separate talk to the student.
The lady who constantly tells her husband how to dance needs to be shut down. She could learn her own part better if she stopped thinking about what he is supposed to be doing. And he could learn too. She gets a phone call.
My new thought is that she thinks he should be doing what I do when I overlead, when I get the lady to do her part in spite of herself. That's work. I don't want him to work. He should dance.
So I get to say it's my fault that I didn't make that clear to her.
But she still has to stop interfering with his dancing. So what if he isn't doing every step in the book!

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