Sit! Stay! Do your homework!

26 November 2009

According to the New York Times, my indispensible source of yuppie trends, some parents have adapted the techniques of Cesar “The Dog Whisperer” Milan to train their own children to obey them.

Why is this news? People adapt training techniques from one species to another all the time. Of course it’s possible to take this kind of thing too far.

• Later: All of this has been sung before and it all will be sung again
• Earlier: Dubious taxonomical choice of the day