SHE FLOGGED HER SON AND THEY TOOK HIM AWAY FROM HER.

When we hear some stories, we will think that they are just made up stories but they are real. Each time I travel abroad, I get irritated about the way some parents handle their children, especially when their children misbehaves. The highest punishment these children will get is Time out, or go to Naugthy corner or the worst, be told off.but as for beating or flogging them , no ,it is out of the way. It is not the same with our African culture. One day I was in the midst of some people discussing about the way children in foreign countries are not being flogged when they err as we do in Africa. A woman from amongst us shouted and said that no body should ever try it in this country. She said she is a living witness to what happend to her best friend. Her friend flogged her son because her son of ten years left their house without permission and returned very late . Her son went to his school the next day and told his friends  how the mother flogged him. When he showed them his back and his classmates saw the scares at his back, they reported the matter to their teacher who reported the matter to the authority . As her friend came after school hours to pick her son home, she was refused to take her son home. The state immediately took over the custody of the son. She said that , as she was speaking to us then that her friends son is in a foster home. Her friend is seriously fighting to regain the custody of her son. What an irony of life? They collected her son from her because she flogged him for doing wrong!!!!