Yes we taught them that if they play in the road they could become dead
and that Mommy and Daddy would be sad if they became dead. We also
explained that lesson about tying things to their necks. Maybe I am
paranoid after seeing a kid hit by a car in a driveway but I also do not
want them playing in my driveway.


That is a tad frightening. How old are your kids?

Old enough to have watched Bambi and The Lion King. Bonnie knows that
dead means you don't come back.
We have a nice amount of lawn for 2 kids to play in and that is the only
place I want them. We go out, when they do not obey me we go back in.


When they don't obey WHAT precisely?
The don't stay in the yard, they play in the driveway, they ride their
bike towards the road.

They run towards the road we go in they get spanked and then we explain
why and reinforce it by reminding them that mommy and Daddy do not want
them Dead.


They probablydont have the first earthly idea what dead is and no amount of
yammering will explain it the way you mean it.

Actually they do know what dead means.. But thank you.. at least Bonnie
does.

Get the books I reference above. Really.

If I think of it when my husband goes back to work I will look into it.
He was laid off yesterday.

Tori