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   alison from lancashire says:

   Jan 21, 18:15

   In reply to anthony accrington, I never said I was against punishment I simply don't agree to smacking. If as you say you where brought up with smacking as a punishment then I wonder why it didn't deter you from getting into trouble with under age drinking and misuse of fireworks, It took a beating from your father to sort you out as you say. So in effect the early smacking didn't work, I do think that children should be punished and that the punishment should fit the crime. I have managed to bring up two children into adulthood neither of which have ever pushed the boundaries as you say. There are other ways to teach children what is right and what is wrong, and being a good role model ,it should not be do as I say and not as I do.

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   Anthony from Accrington,Lancs says:

   Jan 20, 10:18

   All very well Alison being a dogooder in favour of non-physical punishment and wanting to make smacking illegal so it criminalises parents and gives more power to the kids(which have too many rights protecting them anyway),but if I didn't get punished by my dad then naturally as all kids do I would further push the boundaries of what I can get away with and probably end up in trouble with the police and my dad would probably have been fined/locked up. Is that reasonable for a child who is unpunished to get away with anything they like and this ends up with that child/kids being picked up by the police and taken home with parents appearing in court with the threat of a spell in prison or a heavy fine with the additional threats of parenting orders etc over their head to boot? I would say NOT.

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   alison from lancashire says:

   Jan 20, 08:47

   Smacking your child is wrong, most of what I have read so far from those for smacking is that this is the only way to gain respect from your child, this is very sad. To say the only way to get respect by the use of smacking which is violence towards your child is very sad indeed. Its not respect you are gaining its fear of you that you are getting from your child. I would consider myself a hipocrite if I hit my child and expected them not to copy me. Many teenagers who carry knifes on the streets today would claim that they only carry them to gain respect would you agree! but are we teaching them that the only way to get respect is by the way of violence. We should try bieng a good role model and yes there should be punishments for bad behaviour but it doesn't have to be in the form of smacking.

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   Anthony from Accrington,Lancs says:

   Jan 19, 09:21

   I was smacked in the 1970's and 1980's as a child and I DESERVED IT FOR BAD BEHAVIOUR OR wrongDOING;it has NOT turned me into a violent person, in fact if I was a parent of which i'am not I WOULD rightfully do the same thing if my kids misbehaved or did wrong towards other people and/or their property. I was leathered by my dad in my teens for underage drinking and illegally obtaining and misusing fireworks underage;had he NOT done so I would have pushed the boundaries further to see what I could further get away with, and as a result I would probably have ended up in trouble with the police or being locked up/arrested for those misdemeanours and my parents would probably be jailed or fined for allowing it too. So yes punishment in those circumstances WOULD bring your child down a peg or too and reinforce the message that that sort of behaviour WILL end in punishment. Today's kids who do whatever they like because parents don't punish them for it OR refuse to punish them for it turn out little antisocial chav brats egged on by their ridiculous mates and peerpressure who think they can get away with anything they please and NOBODY can do anything against it.

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   Vote tory from liebours dead says:

   Jan 18, 20:03

   Last two posts = load of old rubbish probably cooked up by the same person ,who,might i add, lives so far from reality that she thinks denial is a river in egypt.

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