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>> is it really that tough? >> i have to out last the kid, it is tough for me. strong willed. but i think you have to know your child. and i think our children are used to gabby adults. there was not much talking when it came to discipline, there was right and wrong. >> parents were too busy working, little different environment. this is a perfect punishment, take away the phone, the ipad, x box, go in your room and you can only touch books. there is the answer, that is the punishment. not an ibook. >> i would never give permission to any adult to hit my kid. when i go to school at the beginni...

See, that's how jail works. if you're good to people, people are good to you. if you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last seven to ten days we're starting to see his behavior change because we've been giving him less attention. we've been giving him less attention, having one or two people dealing with him. we've started to kind of trim the numbers down so when he does act up, we just have the necessary people around to deal with him, and up to this point, we have seen some improvement in his behavior, and things are really getting better with him. >> while staff has adopted a new approac...

If you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last several days, we're starting to see the behavior change because we've been giving him less attention, having one or two people dealing with him. we've started to kind of trim the numbers down so when he does act up, we just have the necessary people around to deal with him, and up to this point, we have seen some improvement in his behavior, and things are really starting to get better with him. >> while staff has adopted a new approach to dealing with him, schmidt feels he had part in his apparent transformation as well. >> yoga keeps me calm. ...

>> people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health insurance. everything. city government was also absent. ed cotch's administration was not talking about aids publicly. >> actup is born in 1987, emerging from the powerlessness that many affected by the disease are feeling. >> actup's original photo was also its formula. anger into action. our grief, after a while, became anger. we took that anger and frustration and we focused it. >> a key part of actup's strategy is to use the media to spread its message. >> actup was very, very savvy. we had people like an...

And a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actup's activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long campaign called campaign '92: aids, vote if your life depended on it. >> on october 11th, three weeks before the election, thousands of actup members come to washington to perform a solemn protest. >> no more -- >> they coincided with the aids memorial quilt being unfurled on the washington mall in front of all the museums. >> as thousand...