Beyond Discipline

I bought Beyond Discipline by Alfie Kohn last weekend and have been reading all week (in my copious amounts of free time.) I don't know how you can possibly read what Alfie Kohn has to say and still believe that discipline programs work, or are even in the kids best interest. The quotes from these programs that Kohn uses are amazing.

I was talking to my AP and she said that she thought Kohn was operating in the ideal world. And I think that's true. It's hard to do what he talks about. It's hard not to revert back to trying to manipulate kids' behavior. I do it all the time. But I think it's an idea worth shooting for.