You can try it and see.

I should wish myself to have the punishment as slight as possible to produce the effect." By such management as this, it is plain that Egbert is brought into actual co-operation with his mother in the infliction of a punishment to cure him of a fault.

It is true, that making such an arrangement as this, and then leaving it to its own working, would lead to no result.

As in the case of all other plans and methods, it must be strictly, firmly, and perseveringly followed up by the watchful efficiency of the mother.

We can not _substitute_ the action of the child for that of the parent in the work of early training, but we can often derive very great advantage by securing his cooperation.
_Playful Punishments_.
So true is it that the efficacy of any mode of punishment consists in the _certainty of its infliction_, that even playful punishments are in many cases sufficient to accomplish the cure of a fault.