If you regret the rod, you will spoil the child!

If you regret the rod, you will spoil the child!

To everyone who advocates a tough approach and a tightrope, I want to tell the story of an old lady.

When she was a young mother, people still believed in the idea of ​​"If you regret the rod, you spoil the child." Rather, she herself did not really believe in it, but once, when her little son nailed, she nevertheless decided to ask him a good spanking. The first in his life.

His mother told him to go out into the yard and find a stick or twig suitable for flogging. The boy was gone for a long time. Finally he returned in tears and announced, "I could not find a stick, but here is a stone that you can throw at me." At that moment, she began to cry, because she suddenly realized what the baby might think. He must have thought, "My mom wants to hurt me, she can do it by throwing a stone at me."

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She hugged her son and cried with him for a while. Then she placed the stone on the kitchen shelf and left it there as a permanent reminder of the promise she made to herself that day: not violence!