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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Sensing this is something you feel very passionately about and am sure you have your reasons.
Must say my mother smacked me a few times when I was misbehaving and don't feel its done me any harm.
I agree that beating children is not acceptable but as per my previous comment there's a huge difference between the two.
No but my sister has a 3 year old daughter and a ffew days ago she tripped over and knocked a plate on the floor ( and I was there and she did trip). Her father came in and gave her a smack for it and ever since she has been crying and is afraid to go near her dad. I just wanted to know whether causing a child to fear a parent is a particularly humain way to get the message across that what they did was wrong.
Also Oneeyedvic in your arguement the child had a choice, children don't get a choice of how they are punished. Sure they can choose to do things that are wrong but if the father spilt something on the would someone smack him?
Surely you told her father that she'd tripped or did you just stand by silently? Did you explain this to him afterwards?
If you did remonstrate and he still hit he sounds like a bully and this is different to a normal father. If you pointed it out afterwards did he comfort the child?
I think smacking can have its place and doesn't teach children to be thugs.
I'd term a smack as a tap (lighter pressure than when clapping), it seems its often used to describe slapping a child which is not acceptable.
In China it is very acceptable to hit children as punsihment - Are all Chinese children emotionally scarred for life?
What about the UK up to the 1980s - pretty much every child was smacked by a parent or teacher of policeman - does that mean that every adult in the UK is emotionally damaged?
And what next? Is making them sit by themselves as punishment the equivalent of solitary confinement - what about taking away their favourite toy? A breach of their human rights?
I never said it was rosy, Denmark's suicide rate is even bigger than Sweden's. I was trying to say, that you can't use smacking as an argument for children behaving properly and leading a healthy and prosperous life, as well you may not be able to use the opposite as an argument. But if not smacking at the least doesn't make your kids worse off than those not smacked, why smack them them? You say that it is very acceptable to hit your children in China, I don't know a thing about that, but are the people who lead happy lives in Chinas smacked more or less than those not leading well functioning lives? Or are there no correlation at all? I have ever been presented with data on how children are positively effectedby being hit or smacked. I'm not saying that children who has been smacked in the way you describe, are growing up be anything but lovely persons, but I cannot see how that is an argument for allowing it, as those not being smacked have just as big a chance to grow up to be lovely persons.
As usual I'm sticking my nose into something where I'm not sure of the details. What exactly is the law on this matter in the UK. I assume there is a distinction between smacking and hitting from your posts. What is legal and what isn't? Sorry if I'm a tiny bit off topic sophster.