Temper your disciplining

This is an appeal to those parents who have a heavy hand when disciplining their children. Each child is different: some children can tolerate beatings and other forms of torture to succeed academically while others cannot.

There was a case some time ago, where a teenager took her own life. Since then I learnt from good authority that the girl was frequently disciplined to such an extent it probably amounted to torture.

Many times we do not get the true story from the media.

Because we humans are born with a conscience and memory, parents who cause their children to kill themselves are haunted by regret and pain till the day they die.

Let us all be mindful of the dangers of excessive discipline and temper our discipline with mercy and understanding, and let the young ones live and develop as God would have them.

Joel Quintal San Fernando