For Goodness Sake! (How to Discipline Children)

Member Name: lap dancer

Product:	How to Discipline Children
Date:	28/02/01 (350 review reads)
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Advantages: teaches children right from wrong

Disadvantages: makes it easier to abuse children

For goodness sake I find it hard to believe that people have a problem with smacking a child.
I am 16 years old and, yes I have been smacked on the bottom before. I may not have liked it at the time but it certainly taught me right from wrong.
I was hit by my father normally with a newspaper or a slipper and it hurt, but come on is it meant to tickle? I did something very wrong and had to be punished as I was young and had to be taught right from wrong which i'm afraid many children don't understand.
Maybe that is the fundamental problem with society today, especially teenagers they don't respect anyone or anyone's property, not even adults.
My parents always go on about when they were young and they always say how they were smacked and it showed, people then respected their parents, other people and property. In the last 30 years crime has risen hugely. Vandalism, drugs, beatings etc. The reason for this again is the young people aren't brought up right. They're allowed to do what they want, speak their mind, go out until all hours and their parents don't know or in some cases care where these youngsters of a young age are. Youngsters are growing up to be vandals and single mothers and druggies because they weren't brought up right and taught right from wrong.
At the bottom of the page you are asked what forms corporal punishment should take. Confiscating toys? Confiscating toys doesn't teach a youngster right from wrong it only says that if you do some things your toys will be taken. But if the parent gives a good, sharp smack to the bottom the child knows about it and normally the child won't do it again because it doesn't want to upset its parents and get a sore bum into the bargain.
Of course there could be problems. I am all for a parent smacking a child but I don't think a teacher should be allowed to smack a child as a parent must have the only right to smack their own child. If a teacher smacked a child then the chi
ld would be confused and perhaps given different reasons why the wrong must not be done. I think detentions in school are a better way to get round this. Of course there is also the problem of child abuse but bringing up children right for the many is more important than abuse for the few. This might be a horrible thing to say but the reality is it's for the majority and there will always be child abusers and the abused. I definetely think longer jail sentences should be handed out to child abusers. There's an example of this in Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, a child abuser was given 2 years probation for abusing a child and a father was given 6 years for beating the child abuser up. The criminal justice system must also be sorted out!

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