Feckless Wench
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As some of you may know, I'm in India at present. One thing I have noticed is that the kids do NOT step out of line!
It's perfectly acceptable for any adult here to give any wayward child a sharp slap on the back of the head. Parents do it, policemen do it as do shopkeepers etc. My hubby is on a CISCO course out here while we're on holiday. It's taught by Indians. One of the Indian guys on the course fell asleep one afternoon....the instructor walked up to him and just whacked him around the head...hard enough to be heard across the room. Yet no one (except the foreigners) was at all surprised!
Out shopping the other night there was a young Indian boy arranging the stalls outside the store. A passing policeman decided that the stalls were too far onto the sidewalk and just walked up to him and walloped him hard. His father didn't bat an eyelid! If a kid in our culture was hit that hard on the head, we'd be rushing the poor little darling to the ER!
The same at the Sikh Temple we went to...a kid was paddling in the 'Holy Lake'...and got slapped around the head by a Sikh 'minister'. Did anyone object? No...even the kid accepted it without complaint.
Now maybe in our culture we think this is assault / child abuse etc. But which culture has the problem with disrespectful kids who are only interested in themselves. It's not the Indians! Their kids are respectful, helpful and study hard in school. They also expect to work in the family business (without pay) as soon as they are old enough.
I think we got it wrong again Clyde!
(Oh to be able to try this on my pupils in school............)
It's perfectly acceptable for any adult here to give any wayward child a sharp slap on the back of the head. Parents do it, policemen do it as do shopkeepers etc. My hubby is on a CISCO course out here while we're on holiday. It's taught by Indians. One of the Indian guys on the course fell asleep one afternoon....the instructor walked up to him and just whacked him around the head...hard enough to be heard across the room. Yet no one (except the foreigners) was at all surprised!
Out shopping the other night there was a young Indian boy arranging the stalls outside the store. A passing policeman decided that the stalls were too far onto the sidewalk and just walked up to him and walloped him hard. His father didn't bat an eyelid! If a kid in our culture was hit that hard on the head, we'd be rushing the poor little darling to the ER!
The same at the Sikh Temple we went to...a kid was paddling in the 'Holy Lake'...and got slapped around the head by a Sikh 'minister'. Did anyone object? No...even the kid accepted it without complaint.
Now maybe in our culture we think this is assault / child abuse etc. But which culture has the problem with disrespectful kids who are only interested in themselves. It's not the Indians! Their kids are respectful, helpful and study hard in school. They also expect to work in the family business (without pay) as soon as they are old enough.
I think we got it wrong again Clyde!
(Oh to be able to try this on my pupils in school............)
