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personality development and prescribed and marketed as a good medicine to the patient. Marketing, obviously can increase the demand. The need is to make discipline a status symbol.
Discipline is a medicine and a high dose or over-dose of any medicine can have a negative side-effect too. Excessive or over discipline can give birth to opposition or create repulsion. We should also ensure that the child has the straight-forwardness and the capability to accept discipline.
Every batsman understands the meaning of the word "crease”. Every driver understands the need of a brake in the car and a signal on the road. The new generation has to survive in the new world order, where only intellect will not help. A shield of high sense of values and ethical behavior are inevitable for sustenance and the new generation has to understand this.
The familiar example of girafee makes this point more understandable. Mother giraffe gives birth to baby giraffe while in a standing position. Suddenly the child falls on the hard ground and remains there. After that it is worth seeing the mother giraffe's actions. She goes behind the child and kicks the child harshly. Being kicked, the child immediately gets up but because of weakness again falls to the ground.
Mother giraffe again positions herself behind the child and kicks him. Till the time the child doesn't get up, the mother keeps on kicking the child. This is not the cruelty of the mother but her way of training her child. .
Here kicking is not a crude and animal-like but human behavior. Mother giraffe has the experience of the jungle environment. If the child does not learn to walk or run with it's own feet there is every possibility of it falling prey to the
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