A HEALTHY DOSE
OF DISCIPLINING IS
ESSENTIAL FOR HELPING
CHILDREN BECOME
WELL ROUNDED
INDIVIDUALS AND
ACHIEVE THEIR TRUE
POTENTIAL, SEVERAL
CHILD PSYCHOLOGISTS
AND EDUCATION
EXPERTS INSIST
"He that spares the rod hates his child, but he that loves his child chastens him et times." So counsels the Bible (Proverbs 13:24) in a timeless hit of wisdom, which came to gain a new lease on life as a modern proverb in a famous formulation of it by the iconoclastic 19th century English poet Samuel Butler: "Spare the rod and spoil the child."
Such strident Victorian-era practices, which saw scores of children caned, whipped and knuckle-rapped mercilessly by irascible teachers and pedantic schoolmasters, is anathema today in modern educational systems, and rightly so. Children are not the playthings of adults and should not be at their mercy over any violations of rules and etiquettes, real or perceived.
Most progressive educators frown upon the very idea of corporal punishment, insisting that physical punishments can inflict lasting emotional and psychological damage on children, if not outright bodily harm. Yet taken to extremes, a permissive attitude, too, can be harmful.
In line with the orthodoies of the ubiquitous self-help industry, which often portrays the twin virtues of self-esteem and positive thinking as cure-alls for all.
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