What Would Don Draper Do?

74. Dear Don Draper, My kid didn't know how to make a Sidecar for my wife. Should I be embarrassed, hit him, or throw his toy robot across the kitchen?

Never hit your children. You think loss, some pain or a bruise will teach him to mix drinks? To learn right from wrong? That’s not the way it works. He’s a kid. My father beat the hell out of me. All it did was make me fantasize about the day I could murder him. Level with the kid. When he’s treated with honesty and respect he’ll aspire to be honest and respectable.