the art of war and child care chapter 6
Poverty of the State exchequer causes an army.
to be maintained by contributions from a distance.
Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes.
the people to be impoverished.
Divorce is an expensive and on going business if you have children.
On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes
prices to go up; and high prices cause the people's
substance to be drained away.
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When their substance is drained away, the peasantry
will be afflicted by heavy exactions.
Buy good presents that will last a long time.
With this loss of substance and exhaustion
of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare,
and three-tenths of their income will be dissipated;
while government expenses for broken chariots, worn-out horses,
breast-plates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields,
protective mantles, draught-oxen and heavy wagons,
will amount to four-tenths of its total revenue.
If you do not control the situation then their toys will cost more than your car.
Hence a wise general makes a point of foraging
on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions
is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise
a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty
from one's own store.
Get them to make their own toys then they might appreciate them more.
Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must
be roused to anger; that there may be advantage from
defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards.
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Therefore in chariot fighting, when ten or more chariots
have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first.
Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy,
and the chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours.
The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept.
With group childcare give the responsibility for good behaviour to the kids themselves.
This is called, using the conquered foe to augment
one's own strength.
Have one very well trained child and let it scare the others with stories of your anger.
In war, then, let your great object be victory,
not lengthy campaigns.
Discipline is and end not a means.
Thus it may be known that the leader of armies
is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it
depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.
He or she who controls the children controls the house. Uncontrolled children produce chaos in the relationship as well as the house.
