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discipline children and the use of violence cannot be a way out. Violence is a sure shot way of leading your children towards obstinacy.
Children do not improve with the use of violence, they become more angry. They tend to become more violent and aggressive. In sum, instead of improving, they become more obsessed to fulfill their desires. In reality, violence is a peculiar medicine which does not have any beneficial impact, but definitely has a long-term detrimental impact.
A child who is beaten again and again, loses his confidence in the long-run and becomes dull and livid. An interesting research has revealed an extra-ordinary finding : "children who have been subjected to a lot of violence lose their enthusiasm to move ahead in their life and very often take up lowly paid jobs”.
Many parents instead of reprimanding the child lightly at the right time and explaining to him lovingly, how his bad habit has the possibility of hurting his progress, make an effort to thrust this point in his mind by the use of slap therapy to produce immediate results. Such parents do not have patience and people who lose their patience always suffer greater losses.
For an approval to the laid principle I would like to present a not so old incident that occurred in the life of a family in Gujarat. The telephone bell rang in the morning. The head of the family was sitting in the drawing room only. But he called his daughter-in-law, who was cooking in the kitchen, to attend to the phone. The house-wife who was cooking, came to attend to the phone with the sansi, cooking tongs in her hands. During the conversation she needed to
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