@ thinker
well, just because you can punish by smacking doesn't mean you should. It really isn't the best method. As I said, I don't think it should be banned, sometimes it really is necessary to use a little force to drive a point home (i'm not advocating putting nails into your kids btw) but other methods often work better over the long term.

I think the argument is, if you have to resort to smacking your kids, what about when they realise that, it doesn't really hurt, so what difference does it make, then you have to hit them harder, and so on.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 13:02, Reply)