Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Child abuse

There are many forms of child abuse. The ruthless and unreasonable physical punishment includes beating the child, rubbing chilli on the child’s eyes, calling the child a dog or locking the child in a dark room alone.

The subtle form of child abuse is not preparing meals for the child or ignoring (bo-chap) the child.

I came across an elderly lady taking care of a 2-3 year-old kid (maybe her grandchild). She was looking in a distant and her thoughts seemed to be far away. Her grandchild was playing a few metres away from her by himself. She seemed unappreciative of her grandchild and did not engage him. I guess if he fell down, she would not have known till he cry out.

That was a sad story.

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