You lent it to Margie.

One of my sons kicked his mother in front of a welfare officer and i slapped him..she was going to take me to court..I asked her her age ..she was 20 and not married.. A slap did me no harm.. even an ebay one.. I remember playing football in the street and the local policeman giving me a slap for it..I told my dad and he said he didnt hit me hard enough.

I do remember that among my friends at school, a few strokes of the slipper was regarded as being a preferable punishment when compared to being put in detention but I don't think the teachers actually ever realised that.

A mother cat will, if her kittens are really being a nuisance, give them a cuff.

In my Borstal days i was caned with 6 strokes of the cane across the bum for fighting and that was approved by the Goverment then. it did me no harm..

You've touched on a very good point, psychological punishment. I think that does far more harm than the occasional smack.

If people think an occasional smack is bad, I think some time spent researching "To train up a child" by Michael Pearl might be an interesting excursion in to the subject of child behaviour.

I was always smacked and smacked round the face by my mum and more frequently my dad. Never really harmed me i dont think,, although i do get irate when i hear kids screaming in the town and having a fit.!!!!.

The Bible states, "Don't spare the rod" and no that does not mean beat and beat till black and blue with a heavy iron bar or stick.

It means discipline your children, and if it is required on accasion to smack then so be it.

I agree there is a big difference between a good hard beating and a smack.

The Bible also states teach your children from infancy meaning from very young, so then the discipline would have to be appropriate to age aswell, so rightly, discipline starts at home. I really am not sure personally whether there should be the slipper and the cane at school, although it did me no harm, there are other ways that can be used in schools.

But if you think about it, if good training and teaching comes first from the home then there should be less of a need for punishments at school.

A lot of the time it seems that it is more convenient to hit a child rather than

have to try to be a parent.

I was never hit as a child and have never hit mine and have never been in trouble

and neither have mine, I was never scared of my parents and find it really disturbing

that so many parents are trying to instill fear in their kids.

It is really down to good parenting.

i couldnt agree more with paul

smacking a child is lazy parenting

and sends a message that striking someone for doing something i dont agree with is correct or acceptable

its an outdated method and many more methods are much more appropriate and effective

i had the option of smacking

or

teaching them a lesson

i always choose the lesson

i "hit" my child where it hurt 

as a parent of 3, each was different

son for instance?

which would be more effective?

a smack, or taking away his playstation?

i seldom had to punish mine as i parented right form the word go

i didnt make excuses of he is only a baby (as you see so many do when they are 3 and 4 years old)

hands on parenting

is what it takes to raise a child

not the threat of someone hitting them

sadly many do not grow up with proper parenting so in turn they cannot be good parents to their children

you only need to look out the window, teens having babies

what chance do these children have?

Exactly.

'Feral kids' are made by bad parents nothing more and blaming

the school, state,religion, sweets, video games etc etc is frankly ridiculous

They are your kids so you are in control and it is the fault

of bad parents when you can't control them