Monday, December 7, 2009

Should You Treat Your Children Like Dogs?

Lucy Atkins's children Isabella, Ted and Sam with Rocket

From The Guardian:

Can dog-whisperering techniques used to control canines also work with children?

On parenting blogs, websites and Twitter, the guilty admissions are all the same: the training techniques of Cesar Millan, AKA "The Dog Whisperer", work on kids too. Millan has published four books; his show runs on a perpetual reel on the National Geographic channel. "As I watched him work with an extremely aggressive pit bull," admits a woman called TheMentorMom on Minti.com, "I saw that some of his techniques and philosophies applied to teaching children."

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