There is little method that has greater efficiency in training children and animals than the carrot and stick. Hone that method such that the carrot and stick are merely promised/threatened, and you have a child or animal that trains itself.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
