Article: There's plenty of time to improve parenting skills.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

We are now three days into the real third millennium _ three days down, 364,997 to go. That should be plenty of time to smooth out the remaining kinks in the world's parenting skills.

When you think back over the last 1,000 years, there have been some terrifically useful developments in the area of child-rearing.

I believe it was William the Conqueror, for instance, who invented the command, "Go sit in the corner." Corners being what they were in the crude castles and mud huts of 1050 or so, this technique required further refining, however. It eventually was succeeded by the more modern "Go to your room," but William had to be innovative because in his ...

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