[Nedusa]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Any parent who has to resort to physical discipline is weak, unintelligent and unimaginative. Most of them are also aiming to raise children who are "obedient" instead of free-thinking, but moral, individuals. The aim is to raise a child who does the right thing because they know it is right, and because they want to do the right thing. Not a child who does the "right thing" because they are scared of getting a smack.

I can tell you exactly what that leads to. It leads to a child who gets sneaky, because they will carry on doing as they please when they are out of sight and sure that they can get away with it. And, because children are like little sponges with their parents behaviour, it leads to a child who thinks they can impose their will on other children by throwing their weight around and threatening to hit.

Every single genuine "brat" I've ever encountered does not come from a family with just, fair, non-violent parenting. They come from chav families with parents who have no idea how to communicate with them. And most of them do "get smacked", right there and then in the middle of the supermarket, because their parents are too thick and embarrassed to know what else to do. It is completely ineffective.

Lovely sentiments expressed in this post and I want to believe this is true and no one should ever smack their children.

But the reality is children NEED discipline and a short sharp shock can administer that discipline effectively, trying to reason with very young children is pointless, trying to make a deal with them or bribe them or threaten them is all pointless.

They must understand you are the boss and they should respect you. So a light smack in my view is acceptable and permissable and will not lead to deranged psychotic juveniles.

Children have been smacked by their parents for generations, how else do they learn respect and the diff between right and wrong. How else are they going to learn that when Mummy or Daddy says stop he/she means stop.

All this recent namby pamby don't hit your child because it's assault is complete and utter bollocks and has in part resulted in the current generation of misguided, spolit, diserespectful lazy, good for nothing, idle layabouts who think they have a right to everything without having to put in any effort.

They think they have a right to give a torrent of foul mouth abuse to an adult who chastises them for some minor transgression.

There does not seem to be the same respect for adults by children/youths these days and I wonder if the present situation has come about due to the lack of parental punishment in their childrens early years.






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