My friends are telling me that caning is considered child abuse these days. So farnee I thought. Like that all of my peers are victims of child abuse, as hardly anyone in my generation was spared the rod. Until I read this article on the Straits Times yesterday saying that calling a child useless can be considered abuse. The article even suggested that locking a child in a room is child abuse! So what can parents do that is not child abuse?? Reason with the kids as if they are mature individuals?! If the kids are so mature, the parents don't have to discipline them alreadi lor.