Spoil The Rod, Save The Child, And Educate With Love

There are different developmental stages in children. There are times when children are all-loving and have a beautiful attitude. However, there comes a time when the same child who was once well behaved, tends to behave in a disappointing way. Most times, they will not listen to your words when you advice them against the bad path they are on.

I grew up in a home where my mothers slippers was the facilitator of proper behavior. My mothers slippers has an inbuilt sniper, bow and arrow, bullets, whip, and the handler, my mom, has a very good aim.

During those days, my mother will always threaten to break my legs and that of my elder brothers legs because at a young age, my elder brother and I, use to go out and come back very late - sometimes by 11pm at night. My mom will always threaten to break our legs. One day, she got a rod, and was prepared to break our legs until her friends held her back. In her words, "it is better to have a useful cripple who will do things the right way, than to have a useless son who has his body part complete and well functioning."

I know you will probably be thinking that the authorities will jail her and stuffs, but things don't actually work like that in my country.

One thing I love about my mother is that; metaphorically, she uses one hand to discipline, and use the other hand to draw the child close to her self. When she disciplines, she makes sure that my elder brother and I understand the reason behind the whooping. She does this in a lovely way, but welp, we were still little. We will do it again, and still get whooped.