Weak Negotiating Fathers

"Mike you seem not to mention...
that a father's discipline begins, and rightfully so, at home behind closed doors...then the kid doesn't act out in public!!"

Ideas like this look great on paper but they break down in the presence of actual children. Since you obviously have never actually paid any attention to the behavior of children I'll let you in on what you have been missing. Children will often do what they want when they want and the concept of bad things happening to them later is a risk they are willing to take. They know they will forget and are counting on you forgetting as well. If you discipline them at a time other then when the offense takes place they will not associate the 2 events together, they aren't...