📘 Part 3: Behavior
Are today's parents too soft? Rory explains why a lack of discipline might be a bigger problem than we think, and how society is like a pendulum swinging between strictness and chaos.
This episode's vocabulary
Influence (noun) - the power to have an effect on people or things.
Formative (adj.) - developing and not yet completely formed.
Encouraging (adj.) - making you feel more confidence or hope.
Inconsistent (adj.) - not staying the same in behaviour or quality.
Peer (noun) - a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group.
Infuriating (adj.) - extremely annoying.
Disobedience (noun) - the quality of being disobedient (= refusing to do what someone in authority tells you to do).
Roughhouse (verb) - to fight in a way that is not serious.
Upbringing (noun) - the way in which you are treated and educated when young, especially by your parents, especially in relation to the effect that this has on how you behave and make moral decisions.
Consequence (noun) - a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient.
Clamp down on sth (verb) - to take strong action to stop or limit a harmful or unwanted activity.
Clip around the ear (noun) - a quick hit on the side of someone's head.
Prevention (noun) - the act of stopping something from happening or of stopping someone from doing something.
Anticipate (verb) - to imagine or expect that something will happen.
Arise (verb) - to happen.
Operate (verb) - to (cause to) work, be in action or have an effect.
Laxity (noun) - behaviour that shows little care, attention, or control.
Anxious (adj.) - worried and nervous.
Go off the deep end (idiom) - get very angry about something or lose control of yourself.
Pendulum (noun) - a device consisting of a weight on a stick or thread that moves from one side to the other, especially one that forms a part of some types of clocks.
Counteract (verb) - to reduce or remove the effect of something unwanted by producing an opposite effect.
Dysfunctional (adj.) - not behaving or working normally.
Triad (noun) - three related things that form a group.
Consistent (adj.) - always behaving or happening in a similar, especially positive, way.
The final/last straw (idiom)- the last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation.
Empowered (adj.) - having the official authority or freedom to do something.
Enforce (verb) - to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted.
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