Sounds like a weekend activity to a child though. I think it would need to be administered to really do the trick.
I remember we'd gone toa push pub in Grappenhall for Sunday dinner. We went about once every six weeks. The girls were young at the time, and we sat in the no smoking room (still not banned at the time). In the main room, two young kids were running all over the place screaming. Part way through the meal, I got up to get a pint. The landlord said "Your children do you great credit. they're so well behaved, unlike those two in there. I'd told the mother and grandmother twice to calm them down. In fact, your girls are both so well behaved, they can have a drink on the house if they's like one". I said "That's nice of you to say so and a kind offer. They'll both have a pint of Carling"
I stand completely in favour of the ban. There is no excuse, other than ignorance and bad parenting, for the beating of a child. I smacked (lightly) my youngest when he was about 6. It was not hard enough to leave even a hint of redness, but the shock that his beloved Dad would even contemplate hurting him caused him to burst into tears. Seeing him that distressed upset me, and the memory of it is shameful for me. Whatever bullshit excuse I might try to manufacture for myself, I know that my action was a failing on my part which I took out on my son in a pique of anger. I felt like a bully and a coward. I swore that I would never hit him again, or sanction the beating of any child. I enjoy a loving and close relationship with both my boys, the oldest of whom is in the process of choosing which University to apply for. My youngest is a darling, and as sweet, polite and respectful of others as any parent could wish for. They both make me very proud to be their Dad.
I would just urge you to apply the same restraint when you've been rinsed on here, instead of threatening to tap people on the shoulder
If some kind of stick was administered to all parents then there would be a consistent approach or maybe even breathe life into town squares by bringing back public flogging. "What's that, you don't want to eat your peas? You'll have a trip to the square for a flogging y'little ****er."
Seriously though, you all seem to have very well behaved kids all mine have needed a good whack across the arse at some point when they were young and it wasn't because I had lost control it was because they had behaved really badly or had done something dangerous. They all seem ok and I don't feel guilty about it.
I didn't smack my kids. I think it teaches them that violence is acceptable. My sister in law smacks her kids all the time and they smack each other as it's normal in their house. Once she smacked her little **** son and he turned around and whacked my daughter.
There has to be more to it than that? My kids wouldn't hit each other and none of them are violent. Are we taking about them being smacked on a regular basis and for anything they do wrong?
