3.1 Is "sparing the rod and spoiling the child" a correct proverb?

From “Tiger mother” to “喬喬”, people start to pay much attention to family education. The traditional stereotype makes people believe that “spare the rod and spoil the child”, and it indeed makes parents have a good reason to educate their kids in a severe way. This problem is even more serious in Chinese society, that many parents believe that it is allowable to use physically or spiritually punishments to educate their children. From the past few years this problem starts to change. “Steel discipline” is replaced by “affectionate edification”, so the new problem comes with the tide of fashion: more and more spoiled kids can’t stand any stress, and the cozy surroundings makes the kids become the so-called “soft strawberries”. What on earth is the best way to educate kids?

        From the case of “喬喬”, we know the little girl’s father firmly believes in the stiff disciple. His punishment to his daughter is to break his daughter’s ukulele in order to remind her how important that the insistence is. Some people think that his behavior is appropriate, but more people believe that 喬喬’s dad is out of control. So which one is better? The steel discipline or the affectionate edification? This is the problem that we are going to ask in the interview.