Scotland to be first UK country to ban smacking.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-49908849Children and teens run riot today because parents don't discipline them and want to be their kid's best friend rather than their parent. It is my generation's fault, i am late 30's and probably the last that was brought up generally with both parents, smacked when bad, loved, and respected adults, disputes with other kids might equate in a fight but not stabbing each other.
Mr Putin must be laughing his socks off. Whilst our children are brought up softer, the Russians, Chinese etc remain hard.
Oh great, another layer of parental control removed by Fuhrer Sturgeon and her Gestapo.
Well I hope Scotland enjoys its next batch of undisciplinned hooligan teenage thugs roaming the streets.
Soon be like London fo knife crime.
Great, just not very...
Hope the government is going to build plenty of new prisons, then, because these undisciplined children are likely to be less than law-abiding when they grow into adults.
Can I ask Association of "Educational" Psychologists what would be more damaging to a child's mental health? A smacked bottom or watching your parents be criminalised and jailed before being whisked off to x number of foster homes before they are 18?
So the govt will send parents to jail, thus making them lose their jobs, careers and destroy the family unit just because they smack their child?
He who sows to the wind will definitely reap the whirlwind.
While I in no way support any form of physical punishment for children this on the other hand is political correctness gone mad - a slap on the bottom was used for 100s of years in bringing up humans and all have survived and thrived with no consequences - until modern times where we are looking to bring up generations that fear and know nothing as they are always 'in the right'
I will be continuing to smack my child once on the bottom when their behavior warrants it..and if the nanny state decides I have broken the law then so be it, they can take the children into care and rear them if they want.
What idiots. We are currently in the middle of a feral child problem, with knife-armed kids terrorising the streets, mugging pensioners, stabbing people, and believing it is their 'right' to take mopeds and phones. We need MORE ways to punish unruly children, not less.....
Madness! I have 2 kids both now in their teens. I have only smacked either once. Aged 3 my daughter saw a relative shoo our dog out of the way with his foot. She copied him. Reasoning didn't work, she kept doing it. I decided next time I saw her do it I would smack her and make it hurt. It worked she stopped doing it - a better solution than the dog taking matters into its own teeth.
Children are different. Hence, different forms of disciple should be applied.
Parents love their children more than the govt and hence, would always have the best interest of the children at heart. It is wrong for the govt to try to breach this relationship all in the name of political correctness. Even animals discipline their young if they step out of line.
Carrot and Stick it has worked since time began in all life circumstances.
Punish for bad behaviour and reward for good.
Completely ridiculous PC world we live in, we were all smacked and grew up to be courteous, loving, hard working people, worlds gone mad !!!!!
Dogs nip their young when they get out of line and so do we.
At some point children will stop listening to you and will act up. A short, sharp shock like a smack on the bum is the perfect antidote for that.
It worked for me and I turned out fine. I shudder to think how I may have turned out if I had been allowed to get away with things without that smack.
Scotland is becoming a big nanny state. The UK will go the same way if the leftists ever get full control.