No child should have to suffer punishment and hardship in order for them to grow into mature, responsible young adults. The results of a global research project recently released in Scotland shows that punishing and hurting children has severe detrimental effects on children. It starts a cycle of violence where they grow up doing what was done to them.

Judge Raymundo G. Vallega, the presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 130 in Caloocan City, Metro Manila believes in compassion, understanding, mercy and alternative community service for young people who commit a crime. It helps restore dignity and a reformed life more effectively than harsh punishment. He has made wise and compassionate judgments as the law allows helping many young people repent for their mistakes and start a new better life. That’s how parents and guardians ought to discipline their children--with patience, good example, understanding and dialogue. Scolding and punishment is a form of rejection that drives a wedge between parents and their children.

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