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child also does not know why he has been so severely punished. We have come across many such incidents. 1. One lady used to beat up her child whenever she taught
him and this was her daily routine: The side effect of this was the child became extremely quiet and dumb and they had to consult a psychiatrist. A deep investigation led the psychiatrist to conclude that the child's father used to go abroad often for business purposes and stay there. He used to come home only for name-sake. She used to miss him a lot and get upset. This pent up anger was released on the poor child. Despite beating up the child every-day, yet not finding any improvement in the child's behavior, a counselor was consulted. Upon investigating, the reasons for the mother's bad behavior came to light and left the investigators speechless. She was suffering from inferiority complex owing to constant comparision with her sister-in-law in terms of make-up, clothes, money and so on. The negative effect of this was released on the poor child. Once a lady had an argument with her mother-in-law in the morning about some domestic issue. The husband also interfered and unfortunately sided with the mother. This angered the lady even more. The husband picked up his brief-case and then left for his office. Coincidentally at that time her son stepped in froin school and started playing. The lady lost her temper and poured her anger on the poor child. Her son was confused but could not comprehend why his mother was so upset with him. Just as in payment, there are proxies in punishment
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