I recently wrote an article at Kingscalendar entitled: Corporal Punishment - What's Wrong with the World? I was working in my article manager tonight and noticed that someone had posted a comment about it, and I am going to share that comment with you here at Magic City Morning Star News.

The writers Screen name is Youaremyangel. He is in fact my former student from both Hong Hu and Wuhan, and I taught him for a total of two and a half years.

He offers us his opinion on the issue of corporal punishment.  I hope you enjoy 'Yuhua's' article.

- R.P.BenDedek rpbendedek@hotmail.com

A Chinese students Perspective on Juvenile Behaviour.

The whole article really arouse me to think a lot about what we should do with those childen with bad behaviors. 

On one hand,they are protected by law because of their age,on the other hand,they obviously have less control on themselves.  We can not tolerate them just geting away from punishment for they are too young and parents are at loss on educating their disobedient children.

Now,seeing so many juveniles commit serious crime,I can not help asking myself:  "Am I a lucky boy for living in a ,comparatively speaking, close countryside environment?

Because that kind of envionment in a way is cut off from the outside world, so I have less chance to be badly influenced by other people and receive more good moral education from parents.

All that leads me to be now a good boy. Should I feel lucky for that? You probably can not understand what I was saying, but I do feel that it is because I was living in a close countryside environment and received good moral education from my parents that make me a good boy.

Even though my parents are not well-educated, but they know by their moral sense about what is right and what is wrong, so do I.

Now I am in college and have some general sense about law, but believe it or not, I knew nothing about law when I was a child, but still I knew what I could do and what I could not.

Maybe, situation in foreigh countries is quite different from china, because foreign children probably are totally exposed to the outside world when they can not quite well tell right form wrong and they absorb bad ways of dealing with things under the bad influence of other people and society.

Given the law protection to your children,they feel that they can easily get rid of parental control and suffer light punishment for same crime as adults do.  Moreover, in western world, human rights, like freedom are given top priority to every people which is deeply-rooted in your children.  That means to some extent they can do whatever they want to do.

Certainly,they misunderstand about what is real freedom. Back to the problem you mentioned in the article, I do not think it is right to just simply protect children from heavy punishment for their age, our law must clarifed about what parents could do when frequent reasoning with children end up faiure and parents do not want their children ending up in prison or in detention.

There should be some practicable means to adopt between our current law and normally reasoning with them trying to educate them. Or they will have a very bad cycle going on in which on one side parents can do nothing to help their children with bad conduct because of law protection to children, on the other, children who eventually being put into prison will blame their parents for not infoming or shocking them what would happen to them.

Since there are no longer a living environment that can cut children  off outside world like I used to live in, what we can do is find a compromised way to cope with that delemma.

What is in your mind about how to solve that problem?