Is it the cane or counselling to reign in the youth?

Children did not just wake up indisciplined, argues a children's rights programme coordinator.

Emily Ruhukwa of Ditshwanelo says there is a need to help parents with parenting skills because indiscipline sets in partly because parents no longer talk to children or listen to them.

Mmegi enquiries were prompted by recent remarks by Vice President Mompati Merafhe in which he called for the return of the stick as an effective tool of punishment because young people in Botswana have a serious problem of discipline.

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