Well, how is someone who was never disciplined themselves and were never forced to learn self-discipline (at least in part thanks to constant surveillance of kids since the 90s in some places via cell phones), supposed to know how to mete out discipline?

By gods, there's going to be a lot of abuse born of frustration out there this generation.

Meanwhile, her solution would be to tell the kid some bullshit fairy story about why it's great to wear pants.