the outcome has been a deterioration of general discipline in society, and that is getting worse with each generation.
So how should one reproach a child for wrongdoing then?
So Scotland classifies smacking a child as "assault".
Nanny State.
In other news kids are stabbing each other for looking at them the wrong way.
Discipline has left the building............................
As a kid I got the occasional, deserved, smack, but that was tempered with unconditional parental love. "You done bad, smack, move on".
What now? Society has produced a perfect excuse for the next generation of feral parents to raise more "untouchable" kids.
I give up.
There is a massive difference between reprimanding a child for doing something stupid/wrong/dangerous and "assault".
On the occasions it happened to me it "pulled me up sharp" and made me stop, think and realise that the cause was my actions and that my parents had reacted sharply to stop that moment.
I`m sure a lot of folk on here had the same and it hasn`t harmed them in any way shape or form, or converted them into brutal thugs beating their way through life!
Nope. Sorry. My parents never beat me. Sorry to hear that yours did.
The same notions have been expressed for hundreds of years in all 'developed' nations.
It doesn't make it true.
Different generation I guess, I don`t need the sympathy thanks. I deserved each & every one, it was their nuclear option.
To be fair to them it worked because I never did the stupid/wrong/dangerous things twice!! [emoji16]
I was smacked, I was never beaten.Nope. Sorry. My parents never beat me. Sorry to hear that yours did.