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Originally Posted by Maggy J
I believe in parents being allowed to deal with their own children in the way that suits them..without being nagged about it..and I was smacked and I survived..as did my children..They have turned out just fine and they are not going around dishing out beatings to all and sundry anymore than I am.
The idea that smacking a child automatically teaches them to be violent is a fallacy.
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it seems you failed to spot the irony in your own post there - how I commented that smacking the child will generally teach that child to believe smacking others is ok. this is proven by you saying you were smacked as a child and that you then grew up to smack you own, and then say that by smacking a child, they won't grow up to use violence on others...
in the same light, I was not smacked as a child. i turned out ok. never taken drugs, never drink alcohol, never been cautioned or arrested, did well in education. I have never smacked my daughter her entire life. she too is doing very well at 9 years old. 6er in brownies, was in a competing gymnastics team, is doing really well at school in top groups, every review she has, the school always comments on her excellent and kind attitude and nature....
which leads me to think, if children who are not smacked turn out just as well as those who are, why would one chose to smack a child at all?