Naughty Step or Smacking?

Question

Bring back smacking or lock up the parents who smack their children - your thoughts

Answer 1

Right here go all the thumbs down"

I support smacking. I smacked my kids......i DID NOT beat them,slap them, abuse them....they simply got a smack on the back of the hand or the bottom for doing wrong. I have three well adjusted kids who are all happily married with good jobs and great kids.
I hate all the do gooders who are too thick to realise that since a lot of parents have stopped smacking, and schools have banned the belt the kids nowadays are uncontrollable.

Twenty years ago or more you would never have had a programme like Supernanny etc, because kids grew up to respect their parents and teachers. they run riot nowadays because of all the softies saying...."now don't do that darling, if you stick your fingers in that socket you might get a wee shock"
A simple hand smack and the word no is more effective. Don't get me wrong smacking was a last resort. if they didnt stop what they were doing wrong the first time then they got a smack.
my kids are non violent and i was often told that i had such polite well behaved children. i have a fantastic relationship with them.
my grandchildren who in turn are also smacked are a credit to their parents. they never go anywhere without saying please or thank you (including the two year old) and can be taken anywhere are behave. they are also happy kids because they know their parents limits.
Kids nowaday misbehave because there are no boundaries. they have to have these.
I watched a programme once about a teenager whose mum and dad let him do what he wanted and never smacked him when he was wee....he said at the time it was great......they just told me off, sent me to my room.....big deal!.....i just did it again because that was all i got.

I got the belt at school, believe me once you got that you learned your lesson. nowadays they exclude kids from school........bl**dy hell, thats bliss for a kid....a week off school.....yea some punishment.
get rid of pc and start disciplining our kids the old fashioned way and see this countries children back to being what they were....and no! i don't condone using slippers or sticks on your kids or slapping their faces or beating them up. But a simple smack does a child no harm at all.
Lets get things into prespective here!!

YAHOOYAOO What a load of rubbish. Of course i know and still know what my kids think of me. I had a great relationship with them. We discussed smacking when they were older and they said it obviously didnt do them any harm. dont think that people who smack spend whole days beating up their kids. only when they wouldnt take a telling which was rare did they get a smack.
dont you look at the news and read the papers. look how how of hand kids are these days since the government and people like you started telling others how to bring up their kids.
i love my kids and they love me......fact!

LADY STEPHI Well said. Not smacking was your choice and smacking was mine. The fact is they are our children and we should be able to raise them without any interferece unless they are being abused......and that is not a smack on the hand or bottom, but I mean real abuse. You are a really sensible person. You should go into politics.

Answer 2

The country was a much better place in the days before smacking was deemed wrong. Seeing as the kids today are turning into utter morons I would have to go with the pro smacking stance. The world today sickens me and I say bring back the old moral values. They may have been hard but they seemed to work a damned sight better.

Answer 3

Smacking, you smack because you care and love your child. Parents have smacked their children since forever. And some children NEED to get smacked to understand, naughty step is a stupid idea.

Answer 4

I personally don't smack, that's my choice.I don't like violence, and it is my own personal belief that it solves nothing. My children have also grown up nice, balanced pleasant to be around. Much like some of the parents who have chosen to smack.

Even though I don't choose to smack..based on my most very basic spiritual beliefs amongst other things...

I completely disagree with the concept CRIMINALISING parents who choose to smack their kiddie on the hand for touching the matches etc...it is not fair, and impractical to enforce.

Let parents choose how to raise their own children. Mother should know best. I support the libertarian view that people should and must be allowed to make their own choices and not have them imposed.

All people have a right to live without violence under the law, this is the crux of the issue legally speaking. Children are exempt from this but at the same time it is a parent's responsibility and right to see to the well being of their child

I see nobody here condoning the beating of a child, what I do see are parents who resent the concept of having the right to raise their child as they see fit taken away from them.

Answer 5

What works the most,

Yes i did smack my children when they were little, the naughty step was not around in my days. Some children will do what they want regardless of punishment.

Prime example Pete Doherty. yet another suspended sentence.

they will always be some parent that will go to far.

Now if we move this on to adults, and take prisons as the Naughty step, does this work, NO, now if the Birch was brought back, (smacking) I no there would be a lot less crime in the UK.

Answer 6

so you think violence against your own children is even worth considering? Why stop there?
Once my dad hit me. I set my parents on fire and locked them in. OK it didn't work since they had a key inside and they managed to put the fire out but anyway. Mistreating me has consequences.
As for smaking being leaga here in the uk...
Many parent with less class thing it ok to hit thier kids because "you cant reason with them". the same could be true of peoploe with alzheimers, yet even manhandling them has resulted in up to a few months in prison. Slapping them gets them a year and a half.

Answer 7

Spare the rod, spoil the child, has proven true, true, true. I do not condone beating or anything over the top. I love the parents who sit in public places and "speak to their kids" while the kids are screaming bloody murder and not listening to them one bit. Their psychology sucks and makes it intolerable for others to enjoy their meals or whatever. If the kid doesn't shut up, you plant one on his pants and take him out of the store. Or take him out of the store and then plant one on his pants so as not to "offend" some nosy parker.

We had a kid once coming in for his tonsils. This kid walked all over his parents. He screamed and kicked and bit the whole way up to the OR in his crib. He was a terror the nurses on the floor said. The mother said nary a word. The OR nurse came out to see what all the fuss was about and when we wheeled the kid in, she picked him up and very sternly spoke to him telling him that he would cut out the nonsense and settle down or else. There was no call to act like that. He was disturbing people. He looked at her in absolute aw, shut up and was a little angel the whole time he was up there. He was actually quite likable. He needed some discipline big time. He needed one of those Nanny people from TV.

Smacking when done properly is fine with me.

Answer 8

Spanking or smacking of your children is warranted and necessary as long as it's never done in anger and the rules are understood in advance. The "naughty chair" concept, or no discipline at all, is responsible for the punks of today having no respect for authority and rules of society.
The problem with spanking discipline today is that most parent's are not adults.

Answer 9

You can still smack but it must be with resonable force eg no bruises or marks .The naughty step works to a point but if you make a threat you have to keep it.

Answer 10

I am not anti-smacking as such. But it is the easy option. You need to teach your children how to behave. And if your children do know that you will smack, as a last resort, they will obey you.
But we need to learn how to discipline our children properly, how to teach them and to be consistent with it. And to set a good example.