Does the punishment fit the crime?
There is a time in every parents life when they wonder if the punishment fit the crime. When their child does something they shouldn't do, how do you respond? Even worse, how do you respond when the crime is serious in the eyes of another and quite ridiculous in your own? I have attempted to look back to my own past for guidance yet have come up dry. Perhaps it was because I was vastly more culpable of serious infraction than my child. On the other hand, it might have something to do with the fact that on one occasion when my mother attempted to seriously punish me the entire affair ended in disaster. I remember it as clear as day. In my family there is this spoon. Legend has it, it was given by a Russian Czarina to my Great Grandmother after she performed a piano concert for her accompanied by the legendary Polish pianist Paderewski. In truth my grandmother was the family equivalent of a solitary bass fisherman who claims to have hooked a small whale in a local lake.