Caning..

Caning. Do you agree with the act of caning? I think most of the people from our age group will still agreed with caning. Even I myself also agreed with it as I think this is a good way to discipline a child. Agree? People like me will give explaination that we were raised like that and you see.. we are still alive and stay in a very good condition and some of us may even achieve a succeful life.

The condition had been changed from time to time. Parents in the 80's and 90's will still can their child in order to discipline their children. But, as the development of human's right and child's right.. people start stigmatising caning as some of them may see it as a matter of violence.

I was having a tutorial sessions with a Child Psychiatrist this morning and she asked how many of us actually agreed with caning. Immediately, I raised my hand as high as possible as I think that caning with reasonable reason is good in discipline a child. What do you think? agreed? But what the Doctor said was true. When we can, we do leave some impact towards the child. Indirectly tell them that we are allowed to can other people. Your children will react like you as they learn mostly from parents.

There is always a better way to discipline a child. Can always use the award method. For example, star system. whenever they behave good for a day, give them a star. when they get enough star, award them with something beneficial. Do not awards with something material as they will become greedy in future. For eg: Can take them for a picnic, making cake together (strengthen the bond between parents and child). If they behave badly, take off a star which they earn with efforts.

I do think that the above method mentioned is quite useful. Probably caning is no longer a useful way of discipline a child. We are moving in 21st century d.. Probably things does change and we also need to change.. what was taught might not be always correct. With realization of problem existed, then only we can progress into a better condition..