who agrees with those who say it is right to smack a child?

Question

i am in shock that there are people in this world who agree with smacking children. it isnt right under no circumstances. if you smack your child you are teaching them violence. when we are born we are born innocent little babies the reasons why there are so many crimes etc from teenagers is that the way they have grew up in has taught them bad habbits. if you hit u kid u are teaching them that it is ok to hit when we lose our nerves or don't get what we want. some one statd that the child should be disciplined- and after you hit them tell them you love them?? so if a person kills someone they should walk over to the body and say it was for your own good and that u love them??? what?? maybe i am picking it up the wrong way but no one has the right to hit anyone. nt even police officers or the law. u are just as bad if u use violence against mis behaviour. totally disgraceful. PARENTS DNT OWN THEIR KIDS LIKE PROPERTY THEY R RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM!!

Answer 1

Oh god, lets all love each other and hug trees!!

There is nothing wrong with smacking children, happened to me and I turned out OK.

I think you will find that the kids that are out smashing up your car and mugging people are that way because they had NO discipline growing up, not because they were smacked.

Answer 2

As a child thankfully i wasnt smacked that often and on the few occasions i was it taught me a lesson. I thought twice about misbehaving again or disrespecting others. Nowadays children from a young age have to many rights against parents, we are told you cannot hit a child, u cannot grab hold of a child parents have the right to choose wht determines their child to behave in an appropiate manner. Have a good look at the schools right now the way in which children have big behaviour issues this could have a knock on affect when older. Take a look at the teachers that are coming out of the profession because of the violence. People are under the impression hitting breds violence this is totally untrue. Today unfortunately circumstance alter cases many children come home to empty houses where parents have to work. Children walk the streets for hours mixing with children whom are a bad influence. So the answer to your question is to teach a child right from wrong ..no good crying later when the damage is done.... a good smack never does anyone any harm but teaches them to grow up respectable people and respect all who live in it

Answer 3

It never done me any harm. My Dad never raised his hand to me but the threat of it was enough, but my Mum gave my backside a few skelps, and it bloody well taught me not to do whatever id done to get it again. There is a very fine line that is easily crossed and i understand your concrens but children need punishment and if the odd smack across the erse does the trick then so be it. Giving a baby a light smack on the bum does them no harm as thier nappy is more than enough protection and its the shock of the hit that makes them cry, but doing the old 'Holding them up by one arm and hitting them repeatedly while lifting them off thier feet' is too far

We are too soft on kids these days and they are worse than ever, there was a report in a paper yesterday saying there had been over 3000 attacks on Teachers in Scotland alone in the last year, when there were less than 500, 20 years ago.

Children need discipline and if its not given correctly then they get out of order. I know adults who wont go to the local shops in my area for fear of these kids aged 10-15 abusing them. I have been attacked personally by these same kids and have given a number of them bloody noses and black eyes for the pleasure because no-one else will stand upto them, the police will do nothing apart from serve me a warning so i have to avoid the area as well

Answer 4

First of all. When My dad was in school they used to use the cain on the naughty children and/or were smacked.
If my dad was naughtly at home he would get a smack or a belt from his dad.
This probably happened in every household in those days, but we didnt have yob coulture then did we?
In schools now the teachers are more scared of the pupils than the other way around, they have no control over the class as there is nothing they can do to impliment this.
My dad certainly did not grow up to be a violent bully he grew up to respect his elders and he followed the right path in life.
When I was younger if I was naughty at home I would get a smack but I never grew up to be a violent bully either!
Basically what I am saying is children did not step out of line in those days and if they did they were punished, nowadays all the children are unruly and disrespectful (and are violent bullys) there is no punishement for them seen as they see ASBOS as medal of honours!
My son is 8 now and although I dont smack him alot (he has had a smack or two in the past though).
If he was been out of order he would get a smack for it.
You need to realise that smacking a child is not beating a child, and put it this way they generally dont repeat the bad behaviour after they have been smacked for it.

Answer 5

My mum smacked me when I was younger when i misbehaved, but she did not hurt me, she was trying to teach me how she knew best, she was a single mother with 3 kids all very close in age! I am not a criminal or a bad person, it did not do me any harm.
I now have 4 daughters and occasionally i smack them but i must say its not very often because 90% of the time they are very well behaved!
But something I have also learnt is that smacking them doesn't work! It sometimes just makes them worse. But I wouldn't condemn anyone or look down my nose at anyone who smacked there child (unless they were going beyond a smack)

Answer 6

Calm down what you say is out of character, read the news look at the many little innocents killing mugging bullying and probably a lot more.
Are you saying that these are kids who were smacked then, I dont think so learning bad ways is easier.

So lets just keep our hands to ourselves even when they stick the knife in Oh John!! isnt a bad kid dont lock him up he didnt mean to kill him, but whatever you do dont smack him.

Wow Now ive heard it all I think this question should be deleted.

Answer 7

My mum smacked me when I was a child and I am not violent or a criminal. In fact she raised me alone too, so that probably means in the eyes of some very narrow-minded people that I should have been a problem child. But I am not. I came through school with straight A's, have a degree, a post-grad and I am now a qualified accountant. So no, a little smack did me no harm at all.

Answer 8

I dont agree with beating them up, or really lashing into them, but I feel, that a little slap on the back of the hand or on the back of the legs hasn't harmed. Since all this....try reasoning with them business has come into use...we have disrespectful, selfish people growing up in society. I dont say beat the s**t out of them. Its the same in schools now with not being allowed to punish children for bad behaviour by giving them lines or detention. The teachers have no control, and how can they teach with a dispruptive class. No child will say they want to sit & learn, if they dont have restrictions on how they behave. Children brought up with rules & guidelines are really a lot happier, they need to know the limits. They really do feel more secure. They need to respect order and others. Being responsible for your kids you want them to be nice people, and with no guidelines how can they be.

Answer 9

Well my parents used to hit me badly more like beat and strangle me and that hasn't made me a crinimal it mentally scared me more. i also find it hard to trust because of this so smacking is good but only to a certain extent as if you go to far like my dad and step mum did they hit me with a wooden spoon.. Never go that far i know that and i am far from violent unless i have a very good reason. You need so much disapline otherwise you will never survive in the real world. I used to get hit/ beaten for no entire reason my step mum used to try and get me into trouble with my dad, so in the end i started doing the the things the kept hitting me for. until i grew up met my current fiancee and then started fighting back and my parents backed off me after then because they realised that they could no longer beat me.

But now i jump when someone raises their voice and if someone gets nasty it will rally scare me. And the reason for that is because they way my dad and step mum treated me.

So i think i know where you are coming from....

Answer 10

I totally agree with smacking a child,it teaches the child to be good not to be violent as you say,you do not smack to hurt but to show the child that is wrong and never to repeat it,children who become violent due to smacking means that the parent was smacking him/her to the extent that the child ended up being naughty and that is violence or child abuse but i do really believe in smacking a child.

Answer 11

I can see that you don't have kids! If you did you might not be quite so judgemental. Whilst I agree in theory that we shouldn;t be smacking them being a parent is the most difficult job in the world. We all have lapses where kids are really driving us mad and occasionally a smack is in order. Not all the time and certainly not to injure them or cause them unnecessary distress but if you had them then you would know! If by some freak chance you do have kids then you are obviously in a very small minority and must have total angels as kids... (But I doubt it)