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Not Offensive at All. It's a Trend
I'm not exactly sure why it is a revelation worth a big story in the New York Times "Style" section, but here it is: people have been applying Cesar Millan's dog training techniques to their children. Now, I'm not arguing because I actually love The Dog Whisperer and use his (I hope not patented, because otherwise I'd owe him a ton of money) "Shht" noise with the terrier all the time, and because I think I have, both consciously and unconsciously, used dog training techniques on the children.
I mean this in the broadest sense, needless to say, but all the stuff about being calm and assertive and asserting control through positive reinforcement of good behavior works well on young children and on animals. One is, presumably, looking for different end results and neither my dog nor my kids are perfectly perfect by any means, but I don't find the "discovery" that animal behavior modification techniques cross species. Actually, wasn't it the New York Times that started this meme with the hugely popular article (soon to be a book I assume) "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage"? Yes, it was-- way back in 2006.
What I dearly wish is that someone could show me how to train myself in the ways of being internally calm and assertive so I could school myself in the ways of getting more done, eating less candy, being tidier, and wising up.
posted by Elise at 11:45 AM
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