To become a well balanced person you need yin and yang. I believe the best way to achieve this is, for a boy the father dishes out the discipline (when called for) and the mother dishes out the love, and for a girl the mother dishes out the discipline and the father the love.

And if you're a single parent child, then you're fooked. I was more or less a single parent child from the age of 12, as my father no longer lived with us, and I missed out on the discipline part from that age onwards, but thankfully I had it for the first 12 years of my life, which was just enough to learn me right from wrong, although I am a bit fooked.

Yes, but it was a bit more than just 'smacking'. Moments of rage :)

I was hit/beaten loads of times while growing up and not just by my parent. It never scared me from misbehaving, I always knew that it came from a place of anger and not discipline.

Lol....mine is still being perfected. It is a death stare but my mum also had a lip thing too, they went white when she was about to blow. It was like a siren to leg it quick

my Dad accidentally slapped me in the balls once :shrug:

Until I was 9/10 but it wasn't massively hard and didn't leave a mark.