"I smack and I'm proud of it"

[okka north]

just seen a preview of a programme 'I smack and I'm proud of it'. MM not sure I would go so far as to say I am proud that I do it.

 

I don't smack my son as I don't feel it's the right thing for me as a parent.

 

Why is there such a hoo ha over whether people smack or not?

 

I'm starting to feel like I am in minority that don't smack. I use my voice and different types of punishment, ie no tv, no playing out with friends and don't feel that smacking is effective. My child hasn't turned out to be a horror heaad so I know not smacking does work. But this is for me.

 

Is it now illegal to smack?

[donuticus]

Reasonable chastisement is still allowed. You cant however strike a child with an implement.

[bigflesh]

I'm not even going to watch this programme as just the sheer thought of it makes me mad.

 

There are far easier and humane ways of settling disputes.

[Lester_Bigot]

I'm not even going to watch this programme as just the sheer thought of it makes me mad.

 

There are far easier and humane ways of settling disputes.

 

Smacking children shouldn't be allowed, totally agree.

 

However it is very effective if you have a problem neighbour.

 

We had a neighbour who kept lighting fire in the middle of the day, stinking out the neighbourhood. I told him that 'lighting fires causes nosebleeds for some people'. He looked at me like I was a prat.

 

2 days later, up popped another fire, just as the wife had got the washing out

 

This firebug recieved a nosebleed courtesy of my fist, result, no fires

 

So smacking is very effective (never against children)

[Heyesey]

I'm starting to feel like I am in minority that don't smack. I use my voice and different types of punishment, ie no tv, no playing out with friends and don't feel that smacking is effective.

 

 

If you tell him "no TV" and he goes and watches it anyway, what then? If you tell him "no playing out" and he goes anyway .. what then?

 

ALL discipline is ultimately reliant on brute force. If you aren't prepared to MAKE your child stay indoors, it's pointless telling him.

[Guest]

I was smacked as a child and I'm glad I was.

 

Its not a case of smacking to cause pain. If I was playing up while out, a swift slap on my bottom embarrassed me so much that I stopped messing about! (from the age of about 2-7)

[skala]

I was smacked as a child and I'm glad I was.

 

Its not a case of smacking to cause pain. If I was playing up while out, a swift slap on my bottom embarrassed me so much that I stopped messing about! (from the age of about 2-7)

 

I agree! Kids get away with too much now because they know they cant get smacked! I dont mean a great big wallop but just a quick slap so they know your not messing about!

[Jabberwocky]

Im 45 and I get spanked often, or at least when i can afford the fees. But as far as my kids are concerned, id never hit them. Theyre all well behaved, reasonable kids and they listen to argument and as a last resort, a snarl or a yell can hurt them as much as a slap.

Of course, they ARE still kids. God knows what theyll turn into once puberty starts to set in, if theyre anything like me theyll turn into Satan.

[Jabberwocky]

Reasonable chastisement is still allowed. You cant however strike a child with an implement.

What? I have to get rid of the baseball bat?

[4ny1ne]

You gotta give your kids a good hiding now and again, it stays in the memorie, im glad my dad beat me down now and again to show me who was boss, and i was'nt a cheeky kid because of this. All these new young boys on shops are cheeky little so and so's because there parents are to soft, i know really thugs that go stealing fighting and taking bare amounts of drugs and all there parents are the nicest parents u could possibley have, and because he was'nt beat he could get away with anything.