Smack smack naughty boy!
Is it just me or is everyone annoyed at the current chatter regarding smacking children?
I listened to the proponent of tougher laws on the radio last week, essentially he said any parent that left a mark on their child from a smack, deserved to be dealt with by the authorities. That any smacking at all is inappropriate, and there must be laws to prevent it.
It makes me so angry I could smack that guy!
No I couldn’t but it really does make me angry. The assumption that parents, en masse, need legislation to force them to treat their children humanely. Nick off buddy!
I have very mixed views on smacking. When we were talking about it at home last week, one of my kids said, you never smacked us (which I thought was funny, because I did!) I admit, sometimes I only smacked them to make myself feel better!
I obviously didn’t smack them much, just once on the bottom to bring home a point, usually to calm a situation down actually…to shock a screaming toddler out of a tantrum (you know the sort of thing I’m talking about your honour…) I don’t think John has ever hit our kids, he’s a lot calmer in a crisis than me!
I feel very strongly about smacking to hurt. That’s when the line is crossed. When Mum’s got the kettle cord out and she going hell for leather on a ten year olds bare legs, I think that’s when Mum needs to do a parenting course. Maybe Little Kevin is a bugger, but beating the daylights out of him is not useful…in fact I am sure it is abuse.
But in my view, there is a big difference between the two and the vast majority of Australians fall into the first category. We’ve got laws to deal with child abuse and we sure as hell don’t need parenting experts to legislate away our right to parent our children how we see fit.
I listened to the proponent of tougher laws on the radio last week, essentially he said any parent that left a mark on their child from a smack, deserved to be dealt with by the authorities. That any smacking at all is inappropriate, and there must be laws to prevent it.
It makes me so angry I could smack that guy!
No I couldn’t but it really does make me angry. The assumption that parents, en masse, need legislation to force them to treat their children humanely. Nick off buddy!
I have very mixed views on smacking. When we were talking about it at home last week, one of my kids said, you never smacked us (which I thought was funny, because I did!) I admit, sometimes I only smacked them to make myself feel better!
I obviously didn’t smack them much, just once on the bottom to bring home a point, usually to calm a situation down actually…to shock a screaming toddler out of a tantrum (you know the sort of thing I’m talking about your honour…) I don’t think John has ever hit our kids, he’s a lot calmer in a crisis than me!
I feel very strongly about smacking to hurt. That’s when the line is crossed. When Mum’s got the kettle cord out and she going hell for leather on a ten year olds bare legs, I think that’s when Mum needs to do a parenting course. Maybe Little Kevin is a bugger, but beating the daylights out of him is not useful…in fact I am sure it is abuse.
But in my view, there is a big difference between the two and the vast majority of Australians fall into the first category. We’ve got laws to deal with child abuse and we sure as hell don’t need parenting experts to legislate away our right to parent our children how we see fit.
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