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Sparing the rod: corporal punishment or not, you must discipline your child

With corporal punishments banned from schools and no proper structures to monitor discipline, we are gradually raising a generation of unruly children who do not understand that their actions have consequences.

While corporal punishment is unnecessary, it is important that parents set rules and boundaries within which the children must live.

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