“Teddy Bear” Discipline

The Watchtower, February 1, 1956

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● Modern parents, in this age of delinquent youngsters, can take a lesson from the mother “teddy bear,” the koala. When baby koalas “are really naughty,” writes Ivan T. Sanderson in his new book Living Mammals of the World, “the mother turns them over her knee and spanks them on their bottoms for minutes on end with the flat of her hand, during which time their screams are soul-rending.”

Also in this issue

• Announcements
• Cautious as Serpents Among Wolves
• Check Your Memory
• Cleric Comments on Christmas Customs
• Conscious of Your Spiritual Need
• From Gilead’s Twenty-sixth Class to the President
• Part 27—The International Assembly of 1946
• Questions From Readers
• Showing a Wealth of Good Works
• The “Triumphant Kingdom” Assemblies of 1955
• Why the Crisis of All Mankind