TrueLoveWaits
(Retired)
Nope, but my sister carried the child round to my Mum, asked her to mind her and went back to "have words" with her hubby. I'd say he got a bolloking.
I should hope so.
It's totally a personal choice and I agree that a controlled smack as a result of a warning against bad behaviour may not be the worst thing in the world but I just feel very uncomfortable about using violence of any form as a method of discipline. But hey, I don't have kids, I don't know what it is like to have to pull out a last resort.
To sort of illustrate the point of smacking sending out a bad message to kids (in a funny way), you know the way if a kid bumps into a table or something and hurts themselves you might sometimes slap the table, you know, "bold table for hurting johnny", that kind of thing? Well my mum used to do that with my nephew sometimes until one day, he tripped over his mother's feet and fell and hurt himself and in the middle of the tears picked himself up, turned around to my sister, hit her on the leg and said "bold mama"...funny as it was, we haven't done it since!