While working as a substitute teacher for three years in Long Island, N.Y. and Indianapolis Public Schools in Indianapolis I theorized and tested a technique to drastically change the anti-social behavior of inner city children. It seemed to work well when used but I soon left teaching and so this technique was never fully developed. I planned to use this technique as the basis for my Master's or Doctorate thesis should I ever return to higher education. This was not to be. But now anyone who wishes to pursue this technique and use it please feel free to borrow this knowledge and experience in this article.

First, a little background understanding. While visiting my grandmother's farm in Tipton, Indiana I notice feral cats. If a human did not befriend and pet kittens when they were very young they will grow up feral or wild. They will avoid humans and not allow humans to touch them like most wild animals act.

When I started teaching in inner city schools I noticed that many of the children acted just like feral or wild cats. They avoided touching at all cost and were fearful of everyone. Their primary defense was to run away or if cornered to fight viciously like their very lives depended upon it. These are the behaviors of problem children that are born of young teenage mothers who have no fathers around to guide them. These are the children of poverty and neglect and a hundred other sad stories. But I recognized them all right away as feral cat children of the hood.

I am a longtime student of Natural Hygiene of Dr. Herbert Sheldon. This is the teachings which looks to nature to understand life and man. Dogs and wolves in nature must discipline their cubs quickly and effectively. Wolves especially must keep cubs from running far from their mothers into danger or from becoming lost. Nature's penalty can often be death for a young wolf who does not mind their mother and strays from the pack.

Wolves, dogs, and cats have a simple but effective technique to discipline their cubs -- they either pick them up off the ground in their teeth and hold them there until they stop squirming. Or they clamp down upon them with their mouths and hold the cub tightly until they stop resisting. This works extremely well to discipline wolf cubs and make them mind their mothers in most every respect. And so few baby wolves are eaten by predators because they do not follow their mothers directions. It is an extremely effective technique to quickly teach dominance and obedience to young wolves and other animals in nature.

I next thought that this is exactly how humans learn this respect and submission to adults. When and older brother, uncle, or father plays with a child and wrestles a child to the ground they are naturally teaching this lesson of dominance and obedience of the stronger adult. They are teaching, "I am stronger than you, stop resisting and yield to me and I will release you." Or they are teaching, "I am an adult human and I am your protector, I will never really....

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