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It can be challenging to remain calm when your children misbehave, particularly when you're already under strain from other difficulties. We try to remind ourselves we are adults and these terrors are just little kids, but we don't always behave ideally.
All children need artificial boundaries and consequences. These are practice for the real and sometimes dire consequences adults face. For example, the cascade of misery and suffering we initiate if we fail to raise our children correctly, if we fail to inculcate rectitude.