when i was a child if i did something wrong i was smacked for it and it didnt hurt me.
my children are smacked on the bottom if they do something that is wrong and they are then told why they got a smack but it doesnt mean that i dont love them.

Hi my name is Sara
I am 13. As a child I use to get smacked it was never nothing serious just a tap and I think I learned a lot from that. I think it is OK if it is just a tap other than that I don't agree.
Sara

Dear Koshy and Kylie,
As a Child I was smacked by hand and hit with a belt almost daily. I remember the Smacking but I don’t remember what for. I found this to be humiliating and soul crushing and it took me many years to overcome personal limitations due to fear.

Now as a parent and a teacher, I

Smacking Ban? Why not? The youth of today are running rings around authority already, I'll let my three year old go without smacking and send the results to the fools that make this law. Obviously a rule to be made for people with kids by people without kids.

Dear Koshy and Kylie,
As a Child I was smacked by hand and hit with a belt almost daily. I remember the Smacking but I don’t remember what for. I found this to be humiliating and soul crushing and it took me many years to overcome personal limitations due to fear.

Now as a parent and a teacher, I

NO I don't think a smacking ban would help. Kids today need respect and discipline and the way to do that is to give them a hiding now and then.If they do something wrong they have to know they'll be punished for it and in my experience other forms of punishment don't work.

Yes I think that smacking should be banned as it is a form of assault which any form of assualt is illegal so i think that it is already illegal so i think that it may alreay be banned

also i think that any form of punishment the parent should just sit down and talk to their kids instead of just lashingout but i still think that it is already ruled out as illegal

i think smacking is not unreasonable as a mother of two and one on the way,i smack but never execivly,i always send my child to their room and calm down if i feel angry and i alway disscuss so i beleive they know why the smack happened and re-enforce that i love them.

personally i believe a little tap on the hand is ok otherwise kids think they'll get away with anything, and on the point of smacking out of frusration, whether its banned or not those sort of people are still going to smack their children.