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.
There is a vast difference between smacking and beating a child. I believe we need to protect our children as they are our most precious assets and that there is a great need for better parent education, enforced if need be.But to create a law against smacking seems somewhat excessive.
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