SPARE THE ROD SPOIL THE CHILD
SPARE THE ROD SPOIL THE CHILD You will agree with me that the saying " spare the rod spoil the child" has a lot to do with how our children end up being useful to the family and society at large. In my own understanding and opinion, this adage does not necessarily mean beating up a child but discipline. Discipline in the way and manner we try to correct our wards when they do wrong things. To start with, some three four decades ago, this adage was so enshrined in the society and embraced by all such that the result was a society where its youth were found worthy in character, learning and sound judgment. I remember in my days in primary school though not too long but over two decades now, the fear of Mrs Dada, my class mistress's strokes of cane was part of the reason if not total why many of us were committed in doing our assignment, going and coming home neat, waking up early for school,being good boy and girl at home and in school and above all looking up