The article begins with the author recalling her childhood and her decision to never employ corporal punishment just as her father patiently accommodated symptoms of ADD. Similarly her own son exhibited abnormal behaviors and was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. As an advocate for mental health awareness, she learns a distinction between “controllable and uncontrollable naughtiness”. She laments parents who refuse to have their child evaluated. She offers advice and summarizes, “Discipline is something we do for our children, not to them.”