Wrestling with babes and sucklings : small talk
"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is the advice predicated in a good book, now much ridiculed by post-modernists. No one has ever quarrelled with a lioness when she disciplines an unruly cub. Discipline and loyalty to the pride make all the difference between life and death - even for the lion king. Beatings are out, but why should discipline and loyalty not also be at the root of survival for farming communities?