Intersting?

[Sqad]

http://www.dailymail....-weak-discipline.html


Might this be of interest to the smacking and disciplining?

A generation gap?

[karenmac60]

My parents always tell me I'm too hard on my daughter and they let her away with absolute murder.

[Sqad]

karen ;-)

[Bobbisox]

mine is sqad, disciplined I mean, my daughter's word is final and she has never smacked him, he is very well mannered too

[Sqad]

When they were raising children, today’s grandparents were most likely to ground (49 per cent), smack (45 per cent) or send their children to their bedroom (49 per cent) as a punishment.
When their children misbehaved they also faced receiving no pocket money (33 per cent), being sent to bed with no dinner (12 per cent) and having their ears boxed (seven per cent).


Many of these grandparents are alive today and despite, nearly 50% used smacking, it was abolished ....??

[ummmm]

My grandad beat the living daylights out of his kids. They all turned out okay. They didn't smack their kids...we all turned out okay.

[Bobbisox]

admittingly, we spoil him a lot

Guilty!!!!

[LoftyLottie]

I refuse to contribute to this thread. Anyway, Sqad knows how I feel.

[Sqad]

Lofty....indeed we do....I just thought it might put the smacking debate into some sort of statistical perspective.

My main point being with such a following, it was made illegal.

[ummmm]

Smacking isn't illegal is it? Smacking with a weapon is?

[jake-the-peg]

Funny how smacking your children is fine but smacking your wife isn't

[LoftyLottie]

Because it has a strong following doesn't make it right. Things change over time anyway.

I am opposed to hitting or smacking people, and funnily enough that includes children!! It doesn't mean I don't believe in discipline - I do!!

[Sqad]

trigger...indeed a small sample, but that doesn't mean that the results should be ignored, but assessed in the light of a small sample.

The point of my post was to highlight the opinions of the previous generation, not to say whether it was right or otherwise. There is still a significant group of people who would support the 50% of 500 interviewed....and these are members of the teaching profession........I have been informed.

[Sqad]

Lofty.

///I refuse to contribute to this thread///

;-)

[LoftyLottie]

Blows Raspberry!!!!

[Sqad]

Lofty..;-)

[LoftyLottie]

In my experience of life kids of teachers are the worse behaved. Teachers and vicars!!

[Bobbisox]

sqad, I see what you are saying, as a child I was never smacked but was taught right from wrong and how to conduct myself, there are varying types today, those who turn a blind eye to the way their kids behave, those who use the softly softly approach and those who can discipline with fairness and firmness, maybe it was always like this ?