Smacking Children as a form of discipline
 

Right or wrong?

Inspired by chinese woman beating the baby thread. I don't mean beating the kid but smacking.

Personally, I think there are better more effective ways of disciplining kids and hitting children is always wrong. Thoughts?

I personally see no issue with being hit if the child is really being a pain. You never hit them hard (unless you're actually abusive) and it's just a sting that lasts about a minute for them anyway. I was smacked from time to time when I showed off and I know full well I deserved to be. Too many parents aren't strict enough with their children and they're so against kids being hit, yet they end up scared of their own children when they become teenagers and never obey them.

I think smacking may be effective with an older child (definitely not a beating). But, if a parent has done their job probably in bringing the child up then the child wouldn't do something so serious to warrant a smack. It would have to be pretty serious to warrant a smack in my eyes.

But, like Doogle said, a smack that isn't 'hard' but gets the message across that the behaviour won't be tolerated.

As someone with no children, I would say no, but I know how annoying children can be so I probably would hit them if they've been bad. Not hard enough to bruise them, just shock them.

I'd never hit my doggie though, thats just cruel </3

In all honestly I don't see a problem with giving a little slap on the bum, but there's a fine line.

I would never agree with outright abuse of a child but for unruly children who don't do as they are told after being asked numerous times to stop, a light slap of the legs or bum is whats needed.

Yeah, nothing wrong with the odd smack every now an then

No, I don't agree with smacking or hitting children.

I obviously haven't any children yet and even may never have but I cannot foresee where I would feel it right to hit them.

My 3 Brothers are all greatly older than me the next one to me being near 14 years older,they all have children,so I had lots of Nephews and Nieces of all young ages around me,they drove me crazy at times but never would I ever have raised my hand to any of them.

I was smacked occasionally as a child and it never did me any harm.

But I dont think I would ever do it myself. that said I have never been pushed to the limit by a child before. A light tap on the backside would probably be enough to make them stop and think about how they are behaving.

I would NEVER smack a baby though, in any way. They have not even began to learn discipline.

I love this post offset against your signature. lol

Wrong. You can discipline kids far more effectively without being physical. You need only watch Supernanny to see that.

Right or wrong?



Right
so long as you are not over doing it.

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i was smacked as a child mainly by my dad and its wrong because it makes the kids scared of the parents imo and kids should behave because they want to behave, not because they are scared of what might happen if they dont :conf2:

"I was smacked occasionally as a child and it never did me any harm. "


Bang On Right Vicky

Wrong. I can't imagine ever bringing myself to smack a child, even lightly.

It's also not exactly setting a good example, I wouldn't want my child thinking in any way that hitting somebody could be the right thing to do.

I was only ever smacked if I did something really bad, and I probably deserved it. Obviously everyone's different though and some parents will abuse that.

I agree, there are other ways to discipline kids. You're not allowed to put your hands on an another adult so I don't see why you should be allowed to do it to someone smaller than you.

I was smacked very occasionally when I was being a bit of a bastard and it didn't do me any harm or make me lose respect for my parents, not sure if I agree with it myself though

A little slap on the bum is fine, but only kids aged over 4.

This, but I knew I had deserved it. My mother kept a wooden spoon down the side of the sofa where she sat and she did hit us once or twice with it. She used to just scare us mainly, and we did stop when she warned us.

However to cut a long story short, we learned to not mess about and respect her more.... And we found the spoon and hid it :hugesmile:

Also, she used to scare us by saying "you wait until your father gets home!"

Used to crap myself

My nan used to put her slipper on the sofa as a warning. It was never more than a light tap, her temper more than sufficed if the kids were naughty. lol

I think that it should be used, but only as a last resort.

I've noticed recently that a lot of parent's have no idea how to control their children.

Because 3 year olds can't take the pain and 4 year olds can?

No, a good parent should never have to resort to any sort of violence. Anyone who does it will earn nothing but the full extent of my wrath.