[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I have as much right to quote anyone who posts on a thread - just as you have Niamh.

No one said you didn't Pyramid but don't then accuse me of having a bone to pick with you because I replied to you.

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

I stated several times over the extent to which I felt smacking was acceptable, and where it was not - yet still you maintained YOU were right and I was not. It is not a matter of who is right or who is wrong; it is a difference of opinion and each others opinions should be respected, regardless: which you appear not to be accepting - other than continuing to reiterate "I am right".

I did not agree with your examples because I always think hitting children is wrong.

Originally Posted by Pyramid

As I mentioned earlier: if the point is not to discuss and accept other opinions - and that means accepting them - you dont' have to agree with them, but to continually state one person is right and the other is wrong, is not a debate: it is a one sided arguement. That is and has been my point all along.

If you continue to reply to my posts Niamh, then I will say to you the same - I reserve the right to respond to them. It takes two to tango.

Respond away Pyramid but don't try to make out I have some issue with you and you're the only one I'm responding to, because I am doing the same.

Originally Posted by Pyramid

You still seem unable to answer how else you would discipline a child if your own disciplinary measures failed: that is not me hounding you: it is me trying to establish what other disciplinary measures you would use if your preferred methods don't or won't work. If the child does not respond to them.

Well, I have two children and they have always responded well to the ways I discipline them, if they didn't I would cross that bridge but I would never ever hit them because I believe hitting little children is wrong.........that would not change ever.

Originally Posted by Pyramid

I ask, not because I am hounding you, but because this is meant to be a discussion and I am interested in your reply.

I didn't say you were hounding me because of points you made about the topic, I said it for continually accusing me of being aggressive and saying that you thought I had some bone to pick with you.