There has been questions over the legality of smacking/warning tapping your kids.
I looked into this when my gobby little fuckshite lovely 14 year old daughter started trying to believe she was in charge, and could dictate when she gets a lift to her friends/get picked up etc.
I found out that, and this is quoted: 'Providing that nothing more than a temporary red mark is left, then no law has been broken, or no child is deemed at risk'.
That put her in her place, I will NOT have my 14 year old child turn into some modern fucking hitler in the house.
And yes, she has had a slap round the chops, nothing hard, but it was the shock of me doing what I said I would that worked more than anything.
She has since become a lot more considerate and no longer looks down on us 'peasant parents'.
I use a different form of punishment now, I take her charger away for her mobile phone and laptop, that works wonders, because if she want to use them to talk to her friends, she can, for a while anyway.
I had an arguement with my missus last week, because even after all that she was still DEMANDING a lift somewhere, so I took the wheel off the car and told her I'd give her a lift if she put the wheel on.
At the end of the day, it's how kids are brought up, if you spoil them and give them what they want when they want then they'll be little shitbags.

I was a bit harsh with her the other day though, I have 3 snakes and in a tantrum she threw a battery at my Viv that has a snake that's due to lay eggs any day now, I told her that if it had bust, the only room in the house it can't escape from is hers, so I'd let it live in there with her until I got the Viv fixed. She can't stand them, they're only about 5 foot long as well.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Fri 2 May 2008, 10:29, Reply)