New laws good or bad? (How to Discipline Children)

Name: Trixi

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Product:	How to Discipline Children
Date:	16/03/02 (258 review reads)
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Before I start this opinion, I would just like to say... I don't have kids ....yet. I was also not smacked as a child.

Having said that I may have been tapped on the back of the hand as a toddler, but if I am honest I have no recognition of this.

I live in scotland, where the government has said that smacking toddlers is wrong.... I have a problem with this because as a child my parents threatened me with a smack and (in a non agressive way) and that was an incentive for me to behave. Now this threat is not going to be able to be said since parents will fear the authorities.

Of course banning smacking is an attempt to protect children from abuse or indeed death but is a blanket a wise idea?
I am not exactly pro smacking but this law can be counterproductive.

I work with young people and they know their rights, most of the time this is a positive but sometimes they will use it to get back at a teacher etc.

I know that this ban is only for toddlers at the moment but where do you draw the line.

Kids are smart little cookies and they could learn to use this as a threat to the adults.
Empowerment and child protection is required and needed but there has to be a balance, otherwise it is the adults that are disempowered and anarchy will reign. I don't have the answer....

I do know that kids are smart and the danger is that the power balance will be with the small adults rather than the bigger ones. Now before people jump down my throat I am not for adults instilling fear to kids.

I am concerned that in trying to protect children from abusive situations, the Government is trying to cover all bases to be "safe". The trouble is that generalisations means blanket bans.

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