Thai Children And The Lack Of Discipline

Crikey, it's beginning to sound like a Charles Dickens novel.

Bah humbug, spare the rod and spoil the child.

Aardvark wrote:Ambrosious is right , reward the good and scold the bad, only then will the child understand that everyone loves him when he'es good and hate him when he'se bad. Children learn early what they can and cant get away with. Be stricked and the child will conform !!

No one is arguing that John, but it's not the job of the farang uncle who only sees the child occasionally. It's the job of the parent that see him on a daily basis. With only Roy 'rewarding the good and scolding the bad' it becomes a useless cause and will only lead to confusion for the child... "Why doesn't Uncle Roy like me?"