It says, "Don't, don't," with such fierce persistence, that it kills initiative, destroys endeavor, murders naturalness, and drives its victims to deception, fraud, and secrecy to gain what they feel to be natural, reasonable and desirable ends.
I verily believe that the parent who forever is saying "Don't" to her children, is as dangerous as a submarine and as cruel as an asphyxiating bomb.

Life is for _expression_, not _repression_.
Repression is always a proof that a proper avenue for expression has not yet been found.

Quit your "don't-ing," and teach your child to "do" right.

Children absolutely are taught to dread, then dislike, and finally to hate their parents when they are refused the opportunity of "doing"-- of expressing themselves.
Rather seek to find ways in which they may be active.

Give them opportunities for pleasure, for employment, for occupation.