Urgh, this is such a non-topic, it's unbelievable. I have not listed any alternatives because I am not a parent, and can barely remember what methods were used on me as a child. Well, I suppose I could use all of Supernanny's Top Tips, but such stealing would seem a tad disingenuous. Although, on that show, they seemed to work wonders, if the parents followed them through correctly and behaved in a certain way.
Okay, thought of an instance. I'm about 7. Out for a meal, think it was in Wales, nice country, starting to get fidgety, like kids do. Before that escalated any further, my dad took me to a nearby playground between courses to allow me to let off steam, came back perfectly calm. Now, I'm sure most parents would have simply told the child to stop it, which would doubtful work, and, yeah, you'd probably end up giving them a smack.
My god, this is all SO utterly basic. And don't give me all this 'that's life!' bollocks. They're children. Why not show them porn tapes for tips? I mean, they gotta know someday, yeah? Fuck off. You're idiotic. If you have a child who does NOT respond to simply psychological tricks then that's YOUR fault, that's life! Deal with your mistakes. And that means you have an unruly child. That's because you were a crap parent. Now you have made this almighty cock-up, the only way to tackle misdemeanours is to hit them? Sad outlook, but you only have yourself to blame.
Anyway, it's hardly surprising that ANYONE on this forum would disagree with smacking children. The height of politics for you lot is that George Bush is stupid, the height of culture is that America is shit and computer games are cool. Humanity is crap! Children are little twats! It's all teenage, teeny-bop faux-intellectual, sound-bite discussion where you all show us how cool and engaging you really are.
If you can, as an adult, strike a child and still hold your head high - and if you CAN'T, then you shouldn't do it - then I pity you as a human being.
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