I am not a fan of smacking children. I have never smacked my children and they are both fine, one is 15 the other a 21 year old mother who herself doesnt smack her son.

I used other ways to discipline my children, I used the naughty step, I used withrdawl of their favourite thing for a short time. I grounded them as they got older and have no problem stopping my teenager from using the computer or removing her phone should I need to punish her for anything.

I just think smacking sends out the wrong message to children, it kind of says it's ok to hit someone if they do something you dont like or you said not to do. I dont however judge others who choose to use smacking as a form of controlling their kids, each to their own I suppose.

My parents allways smacked me as a child if i done somthing wrong and i think its completly the right thing to do. if i ever have kids i certainly will smack them if they misbehave.

I was a horror when I was a toddler; my parents smacked me and I've turned out to be a well grounded, fantastic person :hugesmile:. They did hit me as a toddler though, and I think it taught me the right lessons. Everything in moderation though - some people would abuse the right to smack their children, and see it as an OK to abuse them. I think smacking's acceptable, but that's assuming that no parents would abuse this right.

I dont think it has anything to do with smacking/corporal punishment and more to do with numerous social factors, ie/ emergence of youth culture, more freedom for young people, Divorce/separation of parents, a lack of consequences for bad behaviour, a materialistic society... I dont think you need to resort to smacking to instill discipline.

You know you could look at the correalations between 2 things and make any inference you like doesnt mean theyre actually related! Have you noticed that people are living longer since marmite was invented? ehhhhh? ehhhhh? lol the cause and effect is blindingly obvious!

They would never bring back the cane, because for a start parents wouldn't stand for it, and do you really think a teenage boy/girl would stand there and let a teacher hit them with it? the teacher would probably get stabbed lol.

yeh i know my grandparents were talking about it with my parents and i said the same thing...

the teacher would end up getting decked it he tried which is the problem nowadays. i think they should never have got rid of it.

i was smacked as a child and am pro smacking myself