Today was a difficult day. I was visiting with a friend, and her son came home, he´d skipped out on church. The grandmother was pretty upset about this, grabbed a whip and started hitting the guy. I started yelling, and walked out. I made it maybe a block and half, and started balling. I went to talk to some other friends of mine about it. They all told me that I´d just have to get accustomed to it. No one had a single drop of sympathy for me. They all denounced violence, but said its the only way some kids learn. I went back to my friend´s house, appolagized to the grandmother, saying that I did over react. Things went back to normal. But I´m still really angry. Its hard having something that I want to fight, and KNOW that I can´t. No one here has stepped up to the challege. Change has to be internal, not from some foriegner from a different culture, that can barely speak the lanaguage. The grandmother said she didn´t hit him hard, and just over his jeans. Other kids have it much worse, I don´t want to get into that. I guess, the way she explained it to me, made it sound a lot like the ¨spanking¨that most of us were raised with. That seemed harmless. But where/is there a line between discipline and violence?