I took a Dale Carnegie course 20 years ago, and mostly we gave little speeches, sometimes 2 a night. One night I even skipped the first half of class, I SO did not want to do the exercise. You roll up a single sheet of newspaper into a tight tube, then we each gave a speech about some injustice - mine was women's lib related, like why does women's shirt dry cleaning cost more than men's (I think they have since alleviated this injustice!) and while talking, you hit the table with the paper tube, over and over. I was VERY surprised at how EMOTIONAL I got. I really should do it again, I don't know why T's don't "offer" it. Those cushy bats were popular in the olden psych days, whatever happened to them, and punching pillows & stuff.

Aside from that, I think our caretakers scared the carp out of us and DID tell us to sit down and not move off the couch, and we were able to follow those orders, even as young as we were. I don't remember before, but I do remember after telling my older brother he should sit still like me and quit making our mother mad. I also remember being told, and hearing my cousins being told to "stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about" - those "dumb" kids got in trouble every weekend, not me! But now they all have big houses and families, and I have carp.