This weekend, my partner Chris took a break from teaching, so I held all classes for him. So on Friday, I was doing a children & youth class in our Aspern-based dojo ( www.shinergy.com/aspern ). At some point near the end of the class I noticed one of the kids was missing, so I told the rest to wait and went to look for the boy. When I saw him standing in the anteroom, I told him to immediately go back to the others. Thereupon his mother, who was watching the training, explained to me he told him to drink something and that he was only 5 and I'm too strict by far at all. She insisted on discussing my teaching methods after class. Now I can handle constructive criticism, however, criticising me in front of the class is something I just can't tolerate. All that does is wear down the discipline - something that was lacking at that particular class from the beginning. Quite frankly, I don't care how old or how special someone is, as soon as he sets foot in my class, the sam...