“Did you always thrash your children?” I asked an elderly father. “Of course not!” he replied indignantly. “I only used my belt when words failed.” “And how often did words fail?” “Every Saturday!” There was a time when many fathers believed that a belt was an educational instrument. The child…
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Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.
