Worse things than smacking

Nursery World, 31 January 2002

By Naomi Wyndham, a nursery school teacher and former nanny in Hammersmith, London I have never needed to resort to physical punishment in order to discipline my charges and I do not believe it was ever my place to do so. But I have difficulty in understanding how the likes of the Children are Unbeatable Alliance can campaign for laws to ban parents from smacking their children.

By Naomi Wyndham, a nursery school teacher and former nanny in Hammersmith, London I have never needed to resort to physical punishment in order to discipline my charges and I do not believe...

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