Is spanking your child a proper way to discipline your child?

In my opinion no, how can I teach my daughter that there are other ways to tell someone not to do something you don’t like without hitting them if I hit her every time she does something I don’t like.

The only time I’m physical with her, is if she’s about to hurt herself and even then I tap her hand to shock her, not to hurt her and then I explain.

I go with the three strikes and your out rule. For example, we’re out and about, she’s misbehaving so I attempt to put her in her an improvised naughty corner/chair and she says I’m hurting her and gets worse.
Strike one: Mehgan please don’t do that, mummy doesn’t like having to put you in the naughty corner but she will do if you carry on
Strike two: Mehgan stop, mummy loves you and she’s not hurting you, if you carry on I’ll put you in the naughty corner.
Striker three: Mehgan, go and stand in the naughty corner, mummy will come and get you when your 3 minutes is up.

Every time she walks out of the corner I put her back.

She’s learnt, I don’t agree with the theory that some children won’t respond to time-outs of confiscations, if parents are persistent, children will eventually learn that their actions have consequences they don’t like and will stop misbehaving.

They can and will work if given time.

I don’t think there is ever a need to raise a hand to a child, it’s assault if you raise a hand to an adult who can protect themselves, but apparently not to a vulnerable child who can’t protect themselves, in my eyes that’s not right or acceptable. But apparently it is to some people.

With regards to the law, I think "reasonable force" is a load of rubbish, what is reasonable to one parent, isn’t to another, there is too much room for interpretation in the UK laws and I think it needs to be more clearly defined. Not to outlaw smacking altogether as obviously it does work for some parents but to protect children better from real physical abuse that they can’t protect themselves from.

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