Smacking.

I have never been somebody who thinks that a first response to the bad behaviour of children is to give them a smack as there are many tactics which can be used to moderate naughtiness and besides, smacking for all misdemeanours means that it loses the 'fear factor'.

Children should however, be in awe of a smacking and feel threatened by the possibility. Furthermore, no child should ever be smacked because of the temper or frustration of a parent.

There are some children who may possibly never need to be smacked at all but I believe this to be rare.

You only have to see how some youngsters who control their parents and teachers with tantrums are being brought up incredibly badly.

The secret of basic child rearing is that there must always be fairness from the parent and the child must never win any battle.

The first time a toddler wins a battle - a line has been crossed. The child now recognises that there is always the possibility of future victories and the parents have heaped up massive future problems for themselves.

Boundaries must be set in stone. Ultimately, the main provocation for physical chastisement should be outright defiance of the parental authority.

Pity the poor infant teachers who now have considerably fewer powers to control renegades than ever before.

Thousands of children aged between two and five were thrown out of school last year for violent attacks on classmates and teachers, official figures show.
Overall, there were 46,000 expulsions and suspensions of primary school children aged 11 and under for a range of offences including drunkenness, drug-taking, sexual misconduct, racism and bullying.
Just over 4,000 cases involved children aged five and under. It means 240 pupils were excluded from primary school on average each day.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1083582/Thousands-fives-suspended-school-attacking-pupils-teachers.html