By Verna St. Rose Greaves
August 11, 2008
Trinidad and Tobago News Blog
www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog
Too many of us as adults believe that the only way we can deal with indiscipline in our children, is to literally beat it out of them. Religious references support our nostalgic recollections of being beaten to demonstrate it’s effectiveness, because after all look how good we turned out.
Stories are told of kneeling on graters holding up two big stones in the hot sun. Or of being ordered to cut the tamarind whip with which you were to be flogged. In the extreme the offending tool of choice a stout leather strap or the urine soaked and stretched penis of a bull; its’ impact so far removed from its’ original intent.
Continue reading I don’t like to be hit. What about you?
This letter in response to Minister Martin Joseph’s call for harsher gun laws in Trinidad and Tobago.