The two facets of child training, controlling and teaching, basically parallel the specific stages of a child’s development. The control aspect of training corresponds to the “child” stage (to age thirteen), while the teaching aspect corresponds to the “youth” stage (the teen years). A child must be told what to do; a youth needs to be taught why to do it. While children are in the child stage, they should be expected to follow the commands of their parents to the letter. This period of development