I never got so much of corporal punishment as a kid .However mom had innovative ways of disciplining us when we didn't study in time .We had to follow a strict routine and lf late mom was ready with her stick to bang our bumps.And how we cried moving the house upside down running like a rabbit to avoid and sometimes hiding inside the bed till mom was gone .And after coming out of our shell it was still not

over and it meant something more was waiting for us ..If I didn't adhere to the code of conduct and landed up in a soup .I had to describe my misdemeanor blow by blow sometimes verbally and sometimes in written form .My most memorable one being when mom didn't listen to my pleas on coming late while playing with friends .She came running with a broom and she slipped .I laughed and shouted to her that God had punished her for her misdeeds .She was more angry and tied me to a tree but soon her anger dissipated .I thought it was over but after that she told me to write hundred lines never to say that sentence to her .I like an obedient child went to my room after completion handed her those pages and she smiled giving me a cake .I was in the top of my world then tugging my mamma tight and giving her a kiss .Now as I go back to my childhood days I remember life wasn't bad ,we ran ,we played ,we laughed and we studied hard all because of her .She helped us be disciplined and her hidden love inside those stick have made us fulfil our ambition .And now as She says life isn't easy for a girl and since she wasn't able to study she wanted her daughters to fulfil her dreams .
© Jitu Chetry