Don�t Spare The Rod

Ultimately, who you are is how you’ll parent. You can only teach what you know. You can only give what you have. You can only build with the tools in your box. If for example you grew up in a home where there were no rules, where you could climb on top of the roof and insult the next door children, chances are, by the time your own children are babies they will be doing the same; climbing on top of the kitchen cabinet, peeing on the auntie. The apple doesn’t usually fall very far like they say.

I turn red whenever I discipline my children in public and some grown up people start making funny disapproving faces. I am not talking about people from far away in ‘cold’ countries. I never pay attention to those because obviously they were baked differently, I am referring to Batswana just like myself, people who I assume were raised to respect authority and not cross set boundaries like the rest of us.