Thanks Tero Baaje. At the end of the day, this is just a story like the many other stories I have written in sajha.

I agree with you. In America it does seem like no one can discipline the children. Parents have to be afraid to hit them. Teachers can't touch them. I agree with you, a little fear in a child is not a bad thing. It is sad that in America, many children grow up and the only people they fear is cops and the prison warden. By that time it is too late.

So I am not against children getting hit, if that is what it sometimes takes for them to take the parent seriously.

But there is a difference between children being hit out of love and children getting hit because the parent is out of control, drunk, or whatever. I think in Nepal we go the other extreme and don't at all acknowledge the abuse that does happen. Not all parents are acting out of love. So I think it is good if some of the educated people in Nepal see the abuse that happens because parents are out of control also.