Smacking your child to be banned in Scotland

I disagree with this. Parents should be able to discipline there children by smacking when needed. (Yes I do feel there are times when it is needed)

Smack your child, all you want. I completely disagree of banning it.

Snowflake generation never fails to disappoint.

Brilliant news Any parent who thinks physically abusing their child is a correct way to teach a child needs to be stopped.



So discipline = physical and potential emotional abuse? If the only way you can think of to discipline a child is to smack their face, then either you don't understand what discipline is, or you're an abusive piece of **** who needs to burn in a cauldron of acid. Children need to be punished often, but that punishment needs to be relevant to their wrongdoing and something that allows for them to learn.

What's better: A child who no longer screams because they understand it's disturbing to others (and perhaps futile), or a child who no longer screams because they are scared of their parent's palm?

I get why you have this viewpoint but calling others "abusive" simply because they disagree with you is unnecessary. I get that some parents abuse their authority in the form of smacking but this is called abuse, a completely different matter. I don't see anything wrong with smacking your child if it's for disciplinary purposes (for minor things, no, but for circumstances where it's actually deserved). Well, I suppose different parents will have different opinions on whether a scenario is worthy of smacking, but hopefully you get my point.

I don't call people abusive just for disagreeing with me; I call them abusive for thinking smacking a child is OK.

Go on, tell me when EXACTLY is it okay to lay your adult hands on a child, rather than trying to make them understand what they did was wrong in a reasonable manner. Go on, tell me when it's OK to hurt a child as an adult.

I don't call people abusive just for disagreeing with me; I call them abusive for thinking smacking a child is OK.

Go on, tell me when EXACTLY is it okay to lay your adult hands on a child, rather than trying to make them understand what they did was wrong in a reasonable manner. Go on, tell me when it's OK to hurt a child as an adult.

In my opinion, I don't necessarily believe smacking your child is a bad thing. Yes, I understand there are some instances where parents smack their children for no reason whatsoever...this isn't "justifiable smacking", however. This is child abuse. Smacking your children for no reason is wrong, but this is abuse. Banning smacking as a whole is just pathetic in my opinion. If it's used for disciplinary purposes, nothing wrong with it. But why ban it as a whole just because some parents abuse their authority in the form of smacking?

Smack your child, all you want. I completely disagree of banning it.

I disagree with this. Parents should be able to discipline there children by smacking when needed. (Yes I do feel there are times when it is needed)

So discipline = physical and potential emotional abuse? If the only way you can think of to discipline a child is to smack their face/rear, then either you don't understand what discipline is, or you're an abusive piece of **** who needs to burn in a cauldron of acid. Children need to be punished often, but that punishment needs to be relevant to their wrongdoing and something that allows for them to learn.

What's better: A child who no longer screams because they understand it's disturbing to others (and perhaps futile), or a child who no longer screams because they are scared of their parent's palm?

For all the people that think it's ok to smack your child or disagree with it being banned, why is it ok to smack a child but not an adult? If I hit or slap an adult I'll get arrested, if I smack a defenceless child that's ok is it? Something doesn't quite seem right here...

Comparing kids who think running across the road with oncoming traffic is fun, to fully-grown adults is silly.

It's simple really. You should always attempt to explain to your child why what he did is wrong. But there are kids out there who will never listen or take a parent's warnings seriously, and the only deterrent for them is a parent's smacking.