To Smack or not to smack? (How to Discipline Children)

Name: Millenium Bug

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Product:	How to Discipline Children
Date:	02/05/02 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: A good clip round the ear always sorted me out, GIve them what thy give the world and they'll soon stop doing it

Disadvantages: Very Very cruel People out there where will it stop?, Bloody child abusers, more crime

This is a controversial opinion and no matter what anyone says there are peole who will disagree with everything.

A child has to be brought up knowing the difference between right and wrong, then whatever the child does should be the right thing to do.

The only problem is, How do we teach our children what's right and what's wrong?

It could be simple, it could be difficult, I don't know not having had any kids, but I know that my little niece who is only 4 at he minute is a very good girl, she has clear ideas about right and wrong, although young she knows that stealing is wrong, lieing is wrong, killing some one is wrong and general misbehaviour is wrong. She knows that what we tell her not to do is the wrong thing to do, and so she doesn't do it, and if she sees me doing it she even tells me off!

Now i'm not sure how this came about, but I know of some other kids who do not know what's right and wrong even at 8.

It all comes down to parenting and for time spent with the children.

The trouble with todays parents are that most of them are single parents and cannot spend enough time with their kids, OR are just not bothered. Don't argue, I'm not at all saying that all single mothers don't spend enough time with their kids, or that they aren't bothered, sometimes it's couples that aren't bothered, etc.

Also the split between parents and kids becoming wider by the generation takes away the family upbringing that most of us oldies would have profited from. Another factor.

Plus the removal of strictness in school, htere should be a lot more power to the schools to punish the pupils in other ways than capitally, such as detention, maybe a set of summer camps where if a pupil misbehaves so may times and gets a certain number of 'points' on htere record they have to attend these schools which should be run like military schools with forced walks
and isolation for misbehaviour. Cruel but being kind.

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