37 · Parenting without Dominance

‘Intimidation is easier short-term, but in the long run you get back what you put in. So if you put in the time and work to put logical thought into your kid’s head, it will pay off more than just yelling to get them to do stuff.

‘My dad told me that their parenting philosophy was this. "Whenever Veronica hits teenage, she will go into a tunnel and not listen to us any more. So up until then, we have to give her as much preparation as possible, so that when we can’t reach her any more, she has everything we want her to have, to become a good person."'

Veronica King is a math and German major at the University of Texas at Austin, and co-president of the local Secular Student Alliance. She is the director of our co-op, and I've been impressed by her calm and collected leadership skills.

It all started when in one ...