Smacking Children - Practical Parenting Ep 5

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Wilson McCaskill, director of The Game Factory, answers the question "is it appropriate to smack children?" Wilson talks about the wider implications, beyond the emotional damage, of smacking particularly in relation to schooling.

Bottom line: children do not need to be hurt to do right.

Wilson McCaskill is the director and founder of The Game Factory - a program used in many schools in Australia and New Zealand to help solve behavioural problems in children and develop self-directed, more independent and emotionally resilient children.

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[1janstew]

@bodolax If you can’t take the time to explain something as important as crossing the road to your child and must spank them instead may I suggest you’re too busy to be a parent. Perhaps you didn’t use contraception. Spank, spank.

[mrfrednoname]

@MrAlbie75 could be....

[MrAlbie75]

@mrfrednoname I’m worried by your use of put-downs and deregoratory labels (do gooder bleeding hearts). Obviously you weren’t smacked enough to know better.

[kerriechapa210]

@Chibua so your saying spanking a kid is better

[Chibua]

I never have been smacked, it's totally not accepted for a parent to smack there child in my country, i got pinched in my arm(not hard) when i did something wrong sometimes but seeing my parents being angry at me was already scary enough for me, which kid would like their parents to be angry at them? Sometimes my mom used the ignoring method on me, she would not give me any attention(talking,eye contact) for 1-2 days and trust me thats no fun for a kid. I don't believe you need to smack a kid.

[camaranina]

Smacking doesn't hurt a child if it's done with a moderate power. Physical and emotional pain are sometimes more effective than the softer methods. It's normal to feel emotional pain when one is punished and if it's not in excess it helps a child to learn.

[mrfrednoname]

Spanking works for some.. I don't need a do gooder bleeding hearts present "study" to see that. Timeouts are a joke.

[bodolax]

You're wrong, everything in moderation and for the right reason. Even hitting is right when it's out of compassion for the kid. I'd rather spank my kid to teach him to look both ways before crossing a street rather than nicely explain it 20 times. If you're honest with yourself you'll see you judge those who hurt you out of ignorance or malice but you don't hold grudges against those who hurt you out of necessity.

[playistheway]

An erroneous assumption frequently made is that the children/youth who have lost control are the one's who weren't smacked. 

You might want to consider that the reverse may be true. In a study of 2,500 youngsters by Tulane University, those who were smacked more frequently at age 3 were more likely to be aggressive by age 5.

[KozKreole]

In view that I appreciate the views you share here, I must also agrees to the fact that stopping smacking, as a form of discipline, has immensely failed. Look around you and ask, is that the generation we want to leave behind. Kids are thinking they can do whatever they want, to the extent of committing crime and worse committing murder because simple we've lost control. If it was so wrong to smack, why are generation that grew up being discipline from smacking, are not in looney house but are