How to Discipline Children Reviews

Smacking has been a parents best way of disciplining their children for years. Political correctness, and a whole string of non parents are telling us we can't do it anymore...so I'll give you my opinion. I'm sure its not the same as yours, but its from actual personal experience. I have two children, a five year ...

I have four children aged from 6 to 25. My 25 year old remembers well the last time I gave her a smack (she remembers it as the only time) - she was nine years old and had nearly broken a boy's arm! I have a very loving family, we laugh a lot, we argue a lot and we are extremely loyal. Both my husband (step-father to two) and ...

I'm a mother of two wonderful little girls, aged 4 months and 18 months, and I'm ashamed to admit that I have smacked my 18 month old daughter - but only when she has been endangering herself. As a toddler, she's at that age where she wants to explore everything and test out the boundaries to what she can and can't do. So ...

This is a very difficult subject that has caused concern for parents, teachers and government for the past several decades. I am just about to start my second year training as a primary school teacher. During my very short time in the presence of qualified teachers - I have come to realise that CP should never be introduced. I have ...

I used to work as a teacher in an elementary school in Indonesia, teaching English to children between the ages of four and seven. The school was an expensive private school and the families that sent their children there, some of the richest in the region. The children of well off families in Indonesia are looked after by live-in nannies who in ...

It's strange to think that thirty years ago we probably wouldn't have been debating this. There tended to be one form of discipline and that was a slap, either round the head or on the backside! My dad, coming from the old school of "it never did me any harm", used it as the first and last resort in every scenario - if in doubt, ...

In a new century of rights for all people, many parents still smack their children as they feel that this is the only way that they will learn properly when something is wrong. But in the age when people can have their pets taken away from them because they smack them when they do something naughty, is this action really right? When it ...

Being a parent is extremely hard work, and I doubt if it gets easier as they grow older. I thought the hardest time was the first year(2-3 hours sleep per night, if that, due to screaming and crying all night), but then the next 2-3 years have been very hard for different reasons. There's the terrible 2s, which with my daughter is ...

To smack or not should be a parents choice, I must admit that I did smack my children when they were young, I only ever gave them one smack & never in temper whether it was right or wrong I do not know. I grew up at a time when it was commonplace to smack children & honestly feel it did me no harm. I witnessed an incident last week in ...

How to discipline your children is like many things in life, an intensely personal decision. There will also be those on both sides of the argument telling you that they are right- "I was smacked as a child and it never did me any harm", or "you should never smack a child, it shows a lack of control" However I believe that this ...

How to discipline your children? A rather large topic for seventy five words, don’t you think? Many books on that subject probably number seventy five thousand. All I can hope to do is tell you what happens in our house, what I think have been my successes and where I consider myself to have failed miserably. Never in all my life ...

The idea of what should be suitable discipline for children changes like fashion . In the 20th century it started with the saying "children should be seen and not heard". This idea seemed to last into the 50s . Then came Dr Spock who for years held with virtually no discipline . There was a lot of teenage ...

Update ****** I heard on the radio this morning, a discussion about being negative towards a child, i.e. Don't touch the iron, don't touch the baby, don't drop the baby, don't but the baby in the bin, don't paint on the wall, don't put the cat on the table....and so on. You know what I mean! A child psychiatrist ...

I have two daughters, aged 26 and 17, so of course they are way past the awkward stage, but ever since they were toddlers, I've found that by raising my voice a bit, and speaking firmly, they have known when they were doing something wrong. Although every case is different, I don't condone smacking and feel that it really doesn't ...

For most of us a smack seems nothing but there are those that go to far. I feel that a smack does not change a childs behaviour on its own but it is the psycology behind it. The way a lot of parents discipline their children is with a light tap but for others it's not quite so simple. Not all parents have very good parenting ...

What is there to debate ? Any form of violence is always wrong. Full stop. What debate is there ? Multiply that by parent to child violence. Abuse of power. Abuse of trust. Abuse of physical dominance. And dreadful, dreadful lesson to give to children. "If you do something I dislike, I will hit you" - and I have ...

I was often "spanked" by my parents and personally I do not like the idea of cp under any circumstance. In extreme cases where a child is putting himself or others in danger physical restraint can be used but never as punishment. If someone disiplines an adult by hitting it is called assault and can lead to prosecution so why ...

I am sick to death of all you doogooders out there. A smack is sometimes exactly what a naughty child needs-Don't get me wrong i don't mean slap them black and blue. I strongly believe that a light smack does not do any harm. Since everybody has started saying that smacking is wrong look what has happened to youngsters growing up now. ...

I have to first lay all of my cards on the table and say that I am not yet a parent. However I have been a child as we all have and so I think I have the experience to talk about CP. I was never hit as a child, partly because my mother is badly disabled and not able to hit. And there is the crux of the matter; parents hit children because they are ...

I have no kids, and so who am I to say whether parents should smack their children or not? I can't even say if I'll smack my own children, should I have them, as I don't know what I'll be like then, or what they'll be like then. This debate has in the introduction a reference to the recent case in Wales of a head ...